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Google Drive is out

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Glitchny

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Has a lot of interesting features, and it's pretty damn cheap.

You can choose to upgrade to 25GB for $2.49/month, 100GB for $4.99/month or even 1TB for $49.99/month. When you upgrade to a paid account, your Gmail account storage will also expand to 25GB.

Search everything. Search by keyword and filter by file type, owner and more. Drive can even recognize text in scanned documents using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology. Let’s say you upload a scanned image of an old newspaper clipping. You can search for a word from the text of the actual article. We also use image recognition so that if you drag and drop photos from your Grand Canyon trip into Drive, you can later search for [grand canyon] and photos of its gorges should pop up. This technology is still in its early stages, and we expect it to get better over time.
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Already a bunch of Chrome Apps out that support GDrive as well.

Chrome Store Link
 
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The prices are very good, low enough that I'm actually considering it (never gave Dropbox's paid options a 2nd thought).
 
A bug (or missing feature I guess): If you upload a video to Drive and then try to download it to a mobile device, it auto-shrinks the file, so quality (if it were a video for example) takes a nosedive. I'd like to be able to have manual control over that.

This was over LTE, I'm thinking Google is doing it to save people's data bandwidth. Will try it on wifi.
 
That is nice.... I suck at naming files to make them easy to locate. I store receipts etc in PDF's if it is a physical receipt... but when I need it I can never find it! lol so if I could search by a model # and find the receipt because it's listed on the receipt that would be awsome.
 
My account wasn't ready 15 minutes ago but now it's ready. Hopefully this will be a good complement to DropBox. SkyDrive is nice on the desktop but not good enough on Android.
 
This could be an interesting addition to the cloud toolbox.

Otherwise, do people use anything other than Dropbox, Skydrive or Box?

I am looking for something that I can use with the iPhone in particular.

MotionMan
 
MotionMan said:
This could be an interesting addition to the cloud toolbox.

Otherwise, do people use anything other than Dropbox, Skydrive or Box?

I am looking for something that I can use with the iPhone in particular.

MotionMan
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http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/24/google-drive-vs-the-competition-dropbox-skydrive-icloud/

The best comparison article.... I am actually surprised gdrive costs as much as it does. Really expected them to be the cheapest but skydrive ends up holding that crown. I think I am going to end up choosing skydrive because of its win8 integration.... the price also helps because I really was expecting to be tempted to go gdrive because I was expecting them to blow everybody else away in the price dept.
 
Some quick thoughts as an Android user.

It reminds me of DropBox like a year ago. It does the sync part just fine but that's about all it does.

The Android app is functional and you can set things to be available Offline. However, you can't export it to a specific location on the SD card like you can with the DropBox.

Overall it's more storage space for me but little incentive to switch and drop DropBox (pun not intended).
 
nice, i'd paid $5 a year for an extra 20gb before this, means i get 25 gb in my drive 😀
and continue paying $5 a year for the extra 20. awesome.
 
vshah said:
nice, i'd paid $5 a year for an extra 20gb before this, means i get 25 gb in my drive 😀
and continue paying $5 a year for the extra 20. awesome.
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True. 50 bucks a month for 1TB of backup storage is great. But only if it is reliable.
 
vshah said:
nice, i'd paid $5 a year for an extra 20gb before this, means i get 25 gb in my drive 😀
and continue paying $5 a year for the extra 20. awesome.
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I'm in the same situation. Hopefully we can get grandfathered in this plan forever. $5/year for 20 GB of cloud storage (and pictures and e-mails more than 7 GB) is an awesome deal 🙂
 
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Some quick thoughts as an Android user.

It reminds me of DropBox like a year ago. It does the sync part just fine but that's about all it does.

The Android app is functional and you can set things to be available Offline. However, you can't export it to a specific location on the SD card like you can with the DropBox.

Overall it's more storage space for me but little incentive to switch and drop DropBox (pun not intended).
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Yeah that's how I feel right now. I often use dropbox to move images or whatever from PC -> dropbox -> android. I will just download the picture to my SD card in a given spot and then upload to G+ or text it or whatever. this "make available offline" crap reminds me of dropbox app on iOS. Doesn't belong in Android.

I also love how dropbox you can get a link to just paste in a chat to provide to someone else so they can view your file.

Dropbox's prices are just so high. They do have one of the best available apps right now though.
 
Fairly decent comparison with a massive number of cloud services here: http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/24/2...-skydrive-sugarsync-cloud-storage-competition

For those that are concerned with how your data is stored on these services, I found the TOS for a few if these interesting:

Google ToS: "When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, **modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content.**"

SkyDrive ToS: "Except for material that we license to you, we don't claim ownership of the content you provide on the service. Your content remains your content. We also don't control, verify, or endorse the content that you and others make available on the service."

Dropbox ToS: "By using our Services you provide us with information, files, and folders that you submit to Dropbox (together, “your stuff&#8221😉. You retain full ownership to your stuff. We don’t claim any ownership to any of it. These Terms do not grant us any rights to your stuff or intellectual property except for the limited rights that are needed to run the Services, as explained below."
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I've been using Google services for a while so I'm not too concerned with the ToS issues at the moment. I think I may begin to use SkyDrive since I found they gave me 25GB (old hotmail account). I've been using Dropbox for a bit so hopefully the file size limit wont be an issue (2 GB with SkyDrive/ 10 GB with Drive).


Of course there's nothing stopping you from using all of em. 😀
 
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