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| Thread ID: 124006 | 2012-03-31 21:00:00 | Google's G Drive Possibly Mid April.. | kahawai chaser (3545) | PC World Chat |
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| 1267652 | 2012-03-31 21:00:00 | Now screen shots are about, sourced from Android Talk (www.talkandroid.com)as 'breaking" news and a rumoured 5 GB coming up for Google's G Drive. The url - drive.google.com actually 404's at the moment. If it is coming, then may want consider their lessor known Google Takeout (accounts.google.com ) service for exporting from Docs and other properties. Not sure if April's fool - but G drive has been rumoured for a long time. | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1267653 | 2012-03-31 21:28:00 | Well thats nothing exciting -- looking at the link its dismal really-- only 5GB :groan: Microsoft have had that for ages in the form of Skydrive, online storage and 25GB, you can map it as a network drive to your PC as if it were a normal drive. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1267654 | 2012-03-31 22:04:00 | True bit slim the 5GB. But they do have have other storage properties, Docs, Picassa, Play, Apps, etc. Maybe Microsoft's higher, because of the prolific use of Office, e.g. Word and Excel. But they did start from 5GB, but their file limit may be still 100MB. Google docs supposedly allows a upload limit of 10 GB for certain file types, but again their storage is far less than Microsoft's. Surely it's an easy area for Google to vastly and easily improve on for storage capacity, don't know why not. | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1267655 | 2012-03-31 23:40:00 | Still in two minds about online storage -- Sure the idea is great, but theres to much to go wrong in security and other factors that the owner has no control over. Good example ( or not depending on how you look at it, meaning I wouldn't use such a place ) :) Take megauplaod -- lots of people have lost or are locked out of their data, and I'm referring to legal data , not shared music or Videos etc. |
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| 1267656 | 2012-04-01 00:52:00 | 1. If its connected to the internet, it can be hacked. 2. If its part of a bigger sever, the FBI (or whoever) can seize it if someone else has placed illegal content on it and you lose all your data (as WT has said). Like WT said, sounds like a great idea, but to much can (and will) go wrong. not for me and I dont suggest it to my clients either - although a few are on it (at their own risk). |
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| 1267657 | 2012-04-01 01:25:00 | Gdrive for google apps would be interesting - have a corporate cloud drive linked in to google docs as well as some software to make it available through windows explorer. If they are working on Gdrive, I hope they do that. | Greven (91) | ||
| 1267658 | 2012-04-01 02:25:00 | Many website publishers store files online to link to images, pdf's, docs, sound files, etc to display on their sites. Even app scripts (developers.google.com) in Google spreadsheets/docs I need online to connect with online tools for automating web based tasks. But of course people need back them up offline, and perhaps not store online sensitive or personal information. | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
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