News - Google Drive cloud storage service spotted on the horizon

[HEXUS]

Watch out Dropbox, here comes the giant!

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[crossy]

The service is expected to provide free entry-level cloud storage for the casual user and as a hook for potential customers, with the commercial service expected to undercut start-ups such Dropbox, who offer packages starting at 50GB for £6.50 per month.

£5/month (or less) for 50GB would interest me - this could be very interesting. Although at the moment I'd be more interested in a low-cost cloud-based backup service.

Although I guarantee that this'll be seen in some quarters as yet another attempt by Google to inveigle themselves into another aspect of the computing landscape and then take it over.

[BongoJoe]

£5 a month is £260 per year. Put in those stark economic terms you might find yourself better off buying a small form portable USB drive (which would also give you considerably more than 50Gb) and lugging it around with you. The entry price might need to be a wee bit lower.

[mkins99]

£5 a month is £260 per year. Put in those stark economic terms you might find yourself better off buying a small form portable USB drive (which would also give you considerably more than 50Gb) and lugging it around with you. The entry price might need to be a wee bit lower.

£5 x 12 months = £60 a year

[DannyM]

Google late to the party again? Is this going to be another Buzz type flop?

Dropbox is spot on for most folk, however there privacy policy change last year was a bit suspect, but other then that it suits most need perfectly fine, the software has always been hassle free too.

[crossy]

£5 a month is £260 per year. Put in those stark economic terms you might find yourself better off buying a small form portable USB drive (which would also give you considerably more than 50Gb) and lugging it around with you. The entry price might need to be a wee bit lower.

£5/month x 12 months = £60/year (unless the other £200 is "Apple tax" )
Trouble with the "small form portable USB drive" (of which I have many by the way) is that while it's great to do an off-machine backup for a single machine, it's not much good for data recovery for a couple of boxes. For that you need some kind of off-site storage - and these days "cloud storage" seems to be where it's at.

In the meantime I could use your SFPUB to provide an offsite copy of a NAS box, and back my systems to the NAS. Although that's still a faff compared to being able to backup directly to offsite.

I guess the point I'm trying to make is that while Google Drive is currently up against Dropbox et al, I wonder how long it takes for them to have a go at Mozy/Carbonite?

[spoon_]

They cannot touch Mozy since the EMC acquisition =]

iCloud is £70 a year for 55GB

[TheAnimus]

They cannot touch Mozy since the EMC acquisition =]

iCloud is £70 a year for 55GB

Thats double what someone would get from Microsoft for free, downside is the Microsoft one is built in HTML5 and so only works on HTML5 supporting platforms...

Oh.