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    News - Google Drive to launch next week with 5GB of free Cloud storage

    Leaked partner releases reveal details of immanent launch.
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    Re: News - Google Drive to launch next week with 5GB of free Cloud storage

    Great, but isn't Dropbox already fulfilling this market, with 2 GB free, and for every other participant you apply 256 MB extra. And even when you are a student you get 512MB per participant you apply on Dropbox. I have already 22GB. So don't see the premium value in this one.

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    Re: News - Google Drive to launch next week with 5GB of free Cloud storage

    What about android integration, would hope Google have that sorted?!

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    Re: News - Google Drive to launch next week with 5GB of free Cloud storage

    Ubuntu One already provides 5GB for free, each 20GB extra is $3 a month and it has clients for linux, windows, possibly mac os *edit* No Mac OS support, strange but hey. But anyway, for a company with such a large investment in linux systems (android) I'm surprised they haven't got a linux client on release. Also doesn't google mail give you about 7.6GB storage for free? I know it's not for quite the same thing but it does surprise me that Google don't offer 10 or even 20GB for free.
    Last edited by CampGareth; 17-04-2012 at 11:27 AM. Reason: Mistake, no OSX support for ubuntu one

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    Re: News - Google Drive to launch next week with 5GB of free Cloud storage

    Quote Originally Posted by Paragone View Post
    Great, but isn't Dropbox already fulfilling this market, with 2 GB free, and for every other participant you apply 256 MB extra. And even when you are a student you get 512MB per participant you apply on Dropbox. I have already 22GB. So don't see the premium value in this one.
    I'd wait for pricing information before commenting, but DropBox can only offer free storage because many users pay for large amounts of space and so Google isn't going to be short on customers if it gets its prices right.

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    Re: News - Google Drive to launch next week with 5GB of free Cloud storage

    The market is already way too crowed. Unless Google can offer something especially awesome, obviously they will get a nice userbase from the get go. But attracting new customers will be the issues. Who doesn't already use DropBox/SpiderOak?

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    Re: News - Google Drive to launch next week with 5GB of free Cloud storage

    seeing as box.com gave everybody who downloaded the android app 50gb a little while ago, im 100% sorted for now...

    I love google, but they need to give something unique to make me add another cloud storage to my list
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    Re: News - Google Drive to launch next week with 5GB of free Cloud storage

    Quote Originally Posted by Paragone View Post
    Great, but isn't Dropbox already fulfilling this market, with 2 GB free, and for every other participant you apply 256 MB extra. And even when you are a student you get 512MB per participant you apply on Dropbox. I have already 22GB. So don't see the premium value in this one.
    These are the figures provided by Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/help/200

    Everyone earns 500Mb for each referral but the free space is capped at 16Gb for basic accounts, it used to be half of that for each value(256Mb and 8Gb cap).

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    Windows Sky drive offers 5Gb of synchronised space as well. This would make the 4th synchronised cloud storage solution I will be using: Ubuntu One, Dropbox, Sky Drive and soon to be Google Drive.

    I think Dropbox has been clever with the addition of teams which can be extremely useful for companies.

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    Re: News - Google Drive to launch next week with 5GB of free Cloud storage

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    What about android integration, would hope Google have that sorted?!
    This is probably the only reason I would consider it, if it had proper android integration so you can back up more than just contacts.
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    Re: News - Google Drive to launch next week with 5GB of free Cloud storage

    In the item headline caption: imminent, not immanent.

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    Re: News - Google Drive to launch next week with 5GB of free Cloud storage

    Quote Originally Posted by Singh400 View Post
    Who doesn't already use DropBox/SpiderOak?
    I don't - never really had a particular need for it, tbh. I can carry 32 GB of data around on a flash drive smaller than a 2 pence coin with read/write speeds that are much greater than any cloud storage service. It's done me until now. I can see it would be useful for a few things, but nothing I really need.

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    Re: News - Google Drive to launch next week with 5GB of free Cloud storage

    Quote Originally Posted by Biscuit View Post
    What about android integration, would hope Google have that sorted?!
    I have no doubt that Google will release this with full Android support - if they don't my estimation of the company will go down considerably. Dropbox is a very strong contender in this market and Google will have to bring something new to the party to make it standout and not be just another cloud storage option...

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    Re: News - Google Drive to launch next week with 5GB of free Cloud storage

    Finally.

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    Re: News - Google Drive to launch next week with 5GB of free Cloud storage

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    Quote Originally Posted by Paragone View Post
    Great, but isn't Dropbox already fulfilling this market, with 2 GB free, and for every other participant you apply 256 MB extra. And even when you are a student you get 512MB per participant you apply on Dropbox. I have already 22GB. So don't see the premium value in this one.
    These are the figures provided by Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/help/200

    Everyone earns 500Mb for each referral but the free space is capped at 16Gb for basic accounts, it used to be half of that for each value(256Mb and 8Gb cap).

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    Windows Sky drive offers 5Gb of synchronised space as well. This would make the 4th synchronised cloud storage solution I will be using: Ubuntu One, Dropbox, Sky Drive and soon to be Google Drive.

    I think Dropbox has been clever with the addition of teams which can be extremely useful for companies.
    I agree that the more storage space is better, but I doubt if much people like to switch. Because if you switch you will need to switch with your complete group, when you are sharing with others. Next to I don't like the thing that the one document is in Dropbox and the other is in Google. Then I constantly need to switch, so I think it is a move of Google which was necessary, but am wondering how many people will use it next to other services. I read you use all kind of services next to each other. Than this is nice!

    Furthermore I agree with you that the movement of Dropbox to concentrate also at companies is a smart thing to do and definitely a niece market.

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    Re: News - Google Drive to launch next week with 5GB of free Cloud storage

    I'd rather run my OwnCloud if I'm going to do cloudy nonsense at all.
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    Re: News - Google Drive to launch next week with 5GB of free Cloud storage

    To me for Google to do this right they would need to intergrate this fully with existing google accounts. If they do that and as a result it has great android support I can see them getting a decent market share with this.
    I know I'd likely switch from dropbox for it.

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