It's like Dropbox...wait - it IS Dropbox, just...better

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Google Drive was released today. I’m downloading it now, but it seems to be Dropbox (and pre-release rumors said similar things) except…on 'roids (You start w/ 5GB instead of 2).

Link: https://drive.google.com/start#home

Awesome.
~TehYoyo

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If you wanted to create a system image of your PC you’d need one of the paid options.

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Microsoft have also been banging on about their SkyDrive cloud storage too, which I love to use. According to Microsoft they’re the best, surprise surprise, eh? But in all fairness they have got a great cloud storage solution. I considered Google Drive, [URL=“http://f.cl.ly/items/1y3q3t2i0y1m3x2I1h47/Screen%20Shot%202012-04-24%20at%202.11.35%20PM.png”]but then I seen this image from their terms of service.

I’m going to stick with SkyDrive.

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Concerning Skydrive, you used to get 25GB for free. Well now it is 7GB for free. But if you are a previous user you get a free upgrade back to 25GB. I don’t know how long before you are locked out of the 25GB upgrade, however.

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I have looked at numerous free Cloud systems to host numerous dynamic thumbnails to help speed up a slow website.

So far I have only found Cloudy sites that require uploaded simple thumbnail to be encrypted with extremely lengthy URL, also usually logging in required to access the files. All Cloud systems prevent a simple path change to access the Cloudy thumbnail file.

I am looking forward to see what Google has to offer.

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While I understand the clause you highlighted is so that google can work with the data (and every cloud service has something similar), the phrase “publicly display and distribute” scares me a little. :eek:

If you want to store data securely, the cloud is not the place to do it.

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If you want to store data securely then you encrypt it. Thus the cloud is perfectly fine.

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Heh it’s cool and all, but I have ~20GB in Dropbox for free. And 25 in SkyDrive. And 5GB from google isn’t game braking or something, it’s just one of the many.

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Impossible? You must share your mystic ways with us. :shifty:

I realized that Google Drive has no filesharing capacities (mainly: a dl link), which makes me mad - I don’t really use DB for cloud - I trust my drives to carry my stuff.

~TehYoyo