Google Drive Goes Live

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Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @05:40AM from the another-day-another-cloud-thing dept.

lemmen writes "As widely expected, Google Drive has launched officially today. Google Drive is free for the first 5GB, while you can get an upgrade to 25GB for $2.50 a month. They say the service is available for PCs, Macs, Android devices, and soon iOS devices. According to Mercury News, '... the success of Drive will ride largely on whether Google can differentiate its offering from already established fast-growing cloud storage startups that were in the market first, such as Dropbox and Box, as well as Microsoft's SkyDrive service and big consumer media competitors like Apple's iCloud and Amazon's Cloud Drive. ... Existing Google Docs files, the centerpiece of Google's existing cloud storage offering, will move to the Google Drive service once users download apps and install the new service."

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Good backup for important files by cpu6502 · 2012-04-24 05:42 · Score: 3, Funny

My resume, my tax returns, purchased books..... just in case the house burns down & eats my USB backup drive.

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Re:Forget this garbage by yog · 2012-04-24 05:54 · Score: 5, Funny

It's free, and it's Google. I would trust Google to be around for a while, to charge decent prices and provide useful tools to access the drive, and also I believe them when they say no human will see my stuff. Some other companies, such as Facebook, I don't trust nearly as much, because they seem to lack Google's commitment to be a trustworthy arbitrator of data.

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Porn? by BenoitRen · 2012-04-24 05:58 · Score: 3, Funny

Does this allow the storage of porn? :)
1. Re:Porn? by who_stole_my_kidneys · 2012-04-24 06:15 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  you only have 5GB of porn? damn, guess im perverted one :-P
2. Re:Porn? by TubeSteak · 2012-04-24 07:02 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  you only have 5GB of porn? damn, guess im perverted one :-P
  He probably has the exact same number of files as you, but all the videos have been downconverted to postage stamp sized real media files.
  I mean, haven't you ever looked at a girl and wished she was slightly more... pixelated?
  
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Re:Forget this garbage by WrongSizeGlass · 2012-04-24 05:58 · Score: 3, Funny

They all seem to include drive, box or cloud. Which one will be next? DriveBoxCloud? BoxCloudDrive? CloudDriveBox?
Re:Forget this garbage by Anonymous Coward · 2012-04-24 06:14 · Score: 3, Funny

Even MS
"Even MS", as in "even MS are using a proprietary client and a non-standardized protocol"? o_O
Re:Forget this garbage by suomynonAyletamitlU · 2012-04-24 06:21 · Score: 3, Funny

"Cloud, cloud, drive, spam, box, spam, and drive. It hasn't got much spam in it..."
I was going for a monty python reference, but I'm sure enterprising netizens will find a way to put the other kind of spam on there, too.
Re:Forget this garbage by cerberusss · 2012-04-24 21:56 · Score: 3, Funny

I'd go for shit. Where did I leave my shit? Oh fuck, I left it in the cloud. ShitCloud (TM).
Or dump. I'ma dumpin' my shit in the cloud.

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