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1GB of Google Drive Storage Now Costs Only $0.02 Per Month
SmartAboutThings writes "Up until today, I always had the impression that cloud storage was pretty expensive and I'm sure that many will agree with me. It's a good thing that some bright minds over at Google have the same impressions as they now have drastically discounted the monthly storage plans on Google Drive. The new monthly storage plans and their previous prices are as follows: $1.99 for 100GB (previously $4.99), $9.99 for 1TB (previously $49.99), and $99.99 for 10TB.The 2 dollar plan per month means that the price for a gigabyte gets down to an incredibly low price of only two cents per month."
...with the company that specializes in data mining!
I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
I just got redirected to beta. Please do not start that again. It is rude.
10TB for $99 a month isn't too terrible for a backup if you value your data enough to do so.
The real costs are being met by Google being able to snoop even deeper into your life and selling more of your life to advertisers.
And you can use it anywhere. And it has USB 3.0 speed. And it won't be data mined by Google.
How much does it cost you to get that terabytes worth of data from your local computer to Google Drive?
I am Slashdot. Are you Slashdot as well?
I'm curious, how much does it cost to run a Slashvertisement like this? I'm putting together a marketing plan and want to see if it fits within my budget.
1TB for $9.99 is even cheaper... Just saying.
I've always been wondering why no Google-equivalent (or Facebook, or Twitter, or Amazon, for that matter) came out of Europe. Not every one is comfortable storing personal or business data on servers in the US.
A 4TB drive is under 200 USD from several vendors. That is only $.05/GB. So, at 0.24/yr. This is 5..10X more expensive than commercial off the shelf home drive space assuming you have to buy a new drive every 1-2 years. That time figure is pretty conservative.
So, yeah, you maybe cloud storage gives you some replication, and the syncing of that replication costs some amount of money for bandwidth. How much extra that reliability costs really depends on the data dynamics, though and isn't as easy to estimate.
Also, 5..10X more is just about the ratio of SSD storage to magnetic disks. SSD is considered "relatively expensive storage" by most people I know.
"The 2 dollar plan per month means that the price for a gigabyte gets down to an incredibly low price of only two cents per month."
Translation, please. I must have missed something.
The NSA has an even better deal. The only price you pay for storage of all of your data is your freedom.
The algorithms scanning through it , trying to make marketing sense of all that data are expensive ..
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whoppie facebook is free !!!!
... but for a lot of people, moving the data to and from the storage is what's really going to be costly. It'll be interesting to see how much of that disk space ends up going unused when word gets around about how much users get clobbered with data overage charges by AT&T, et al trying to use the cheap disk space.
CUR ALLOC 20195.....5804M
Much happier paying [url=https://tarsnap.com]Tarsnap[/url] for proper secure storage.
1GB is FREE. Up 15GB is FREE
Information is a hell of a drug.
Now if the software could actually handle syncing existing folders... seriously
You get charged for bandwidth so don't think it's cheap
did you forget to take your meds?
$1.99 for 100GB (previously $4.99), $9.99 for 1TB (previously $49.99), and $99.99 for 10TB.The 2 dollar plan per month means that the price for a gigabyte gets down to an incredibly low price of only two cents per month.
While it's true that the 2-dollar plan per month are $0.02 per month, the other plans are only $0.01 per month. Failing to mention this is bad math.
Here is a table of prices:
$2 / 100 GB / month ==> $0.02 / month
$10 / 1 TB / month ==> $0.01 / month
$100 / 10 TB / month ==> $0.02 / month
(Yes, I know it's technically $1.99 and not $2.00, but let's face it... prices ending in ".99" are retarded.)
with that kind of information you should be able to predict the future.
If you're looking for long-term archival storage, Amazon Glacier is a pretty good deal at a $0.01/GB. I backed a few hundred GB's of data there and it's only costing me a few dollars/month. Restores will cost money, but if my house burns down and I lose my NAS + backups, I won't mind paying them a few hundred dollars to restore my data to a hard drive and ship it to me. Does Google Drive provide a way to ship your data on a hard drive? It would take me days or weeks to download data over my currrent internet connection (assuming I don't hit my ISP's data cap)
I bought in to google storage back before they went to monthly billing...
I pay $5 a year for 20Gb... works out to just over 2 cents per month per gigabyte...
Under the new plan I could pay just under 2 cents per month per gigabyte...
Except google is saying they actually are giving me 36 Gigabyte; 16GB bonus for being a paid user and an early adopter... which works out to 1.2 cents per gigabyte per month...
Of course, some of that storage would probably be free if I weren't paying for it... so who knows what the real savings or cost actually is... not me. But I can still stomach $5 a year to store a bunch of photos in a location where I can share them with others or not as I choose.
Why do I get the feeling this was a paid ad?
I'll stick with SpiderOak and TarSnap Fully encrypted, zero knowledge from their end. A bit more money but good peace of mind.
Trolling is a art,
It is when compared to 10TB of local storage.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Good luck data mining my TrueCrypt containers ...
Google has a long history of getting rid of features or tools on a whim, and with
little advance warning to those who used those things.
If you trust Google while being aware of the above, you are a fool and you deserve
no sympathy when you are screwed by Google.
I couldn't find anything on their site that states if it is NFS or SMB. I signed up for it, but I found nothing anywhere in the instructions that indicate how you actually access your files. It seems like a scam.
So my 2TB drive paid for itself in two months! Cool... I'm gonna be rich. ; )
This should be a banner ad.
10TB for $99 a month isn't too terrible for a backup if you value your data enough to do so.
That's $1200 a year. For the same $1200 you can buy a NAS box of equal or greater capacity that's yours and doesn't require monthly payments.
Now, if only they would make a Linux client. Then, I might use it. Until then, Dropbox all the way!
They arent doing it out of the goodness of their hearts, so therefore the profits in the deal are coming from somplace else - the service you need to access all that data, someone elses advertising, etc.... Its really like saying that the packets of ketchup at Mc Donalds are FREE if you close your eyes and dont care to see all the rest of whats involved.
But that NAS is likely sitting at your location, which means if it gets burned down by insane meth heads or swallowed by a sinkhole, you're good and screwed.
For my business, I use DFS that replicates our shared drives at all three locations, so I feel fairly confident that an almost up-to-date mirror of the data is being held at two other locations, all of which are separated by a lot of miles. Coupled with offsite backup, I feel the business data is secure.
At the moment my personal data is on Dropbox, with my absolutely confidential data in a Truecrypt container. Still, Dropbox is kind of expensive for the 7 or 8gb of data I'd like to store, so I will definitely be considering Google's offering. Since both work the same, at least for the PC versions, in that each computer has a full copy of the data, if Google goes offline or pulls the plug, I still have my multiple copies sitting around.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
The point of a google drive backup is to have an offsite backup. Now, I agree you could set up that machine at a friend's house (or familly member) and get the offsite backup with a little bit of network configuration.
I know it is a paid advertisement but still, those prices are NOT incredibly low, they are still significantly more than purchasing your drives and doing it yourself and they are supposedly getting the benefit of scale as well as the benefit of being able to mine and sell your data.
I love Dropbox even though it is expensive ^_^
Yep...and how much does it cost if you add a backup solution and off-site replication?
Another $1200 NAS
Somewhere to put it
Connectivity
Maintenance and/or monitoring
Cheaper? Probably (for now). Cheaper enough to be worth if if you value your data? Not for me.
You can get rich if you own a politician, but you have to be rich to buy one in the first place.
10TB for $99 a month isn't too terrible for a backup if you value your data enough to do so.
That's $1200 a year. For the same $1200 you can buy a NAS box of equal or greater capacity that's yours and doesn't require monthly payments.
Pretty close.
Still, even at the price points I linked to it's still under a two-year payback window, and that includes setting the backup up as Raid 5 so you have some basic redundancy...
It doesn't help with the 'but what if the house burns down' argument, though. Unless you set it up at a friends house and use FTP, I suppose.
"I love animals! Some are cute, others are tasty, what's not to like?" - Betsy Schroeder, Jeopardy contestant
I posted this on the other 20TB backup article, however I see I got downrated. But I feel this is in it's right place at this article too :)
Cheers.
Until your house burns down.
Salut,
Jacques
You need two of those 1200 NAS boxes, and you have to replace failed drives, and you have to move storage off site in case of fire, theft, foo, bar. $1200 for 10TB of storage is so incredibly cheap. It was only 15 years ago that we used to sell 100GB NAS boxes for $100,000.
Salut,
Jacques
Now my "disable advertising" checkbox doesn't work. :-(
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
I have had a Google drive for over a year now. I use it to sync documents from my laptop to my PCs. I found boxcrypter now! It sits between you and Google/Dropbox/etc and encrypts the files on the fly. Been using it for about a month now and no problems. Absolutely cannot lose your "key" information tho or your encrypted drive is gone.
Another solution for my Linux boxes is I bought 250GB VPS on backupsy.com. I setup an encrypted Debian install running SeaFile server for my google drive mirrors. 5 bux a month and I get my own offsite shell account too. And I rsync my various linux boxes there also (minecraft servers).
I don't want to get all my stuff loaded on google, and then have them jack up the price.
Thanks for posting this, I was using Google Drive at the 100GB level and paying the old price. When I went to check it out, my control panel said I was on the 'Legacy Plan' and still displayed $4.99/mo. You can simple select the new $1.99 plan right next to it to switch the account over.
So in short, you actually have to go and switch the account yourself, otherwise you will still be paying the higher price.
If you already buy storage from Google you'll get that storage in addition to the new plan. In my case I get 125 GB for $1.99/mo.
You trolling piece of shit http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4885825&cid=46474817
APK
P.S.=> How many times do I have to show everyone you're a worthless piece of crap troll? This, is just yet another... apk
After sending hard copies to the NSA of course.
Hubic gives you the same for ten times cheaper https://hubic.com/en/offers/, and it's hosted by a French company, which will not give out encryption keys to the NSA
> Until your house burns down.
OK. So who here has ever had their house burn down? ANYONE?
[crickets chirp]
Once you've got more than one copy of something it's trivial for even the biggest technical rube to sneakernet it somewhere else. On the other hand, it's terribly cumbersome to copy much of anything into the cloud.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
You trolling piece of undereducated useless shit http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4885825&cid=46474817
APK
P.S.=> How many times do I have to show everyone here that you're a worthless piece of crap troll? This, is just yet another... apk
So, basically, you're paying them $40 to power $100 worth of storage, or a rental per month of ... seriously, that's quite the markup.
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640 kB ought to be enough for anybody.
Why not compare the price of google cloud storage, with the cost of cloud storage from google competitors?
Don't you think that would be a meaningful comparison?
You MS shills are so transparent.
There have been several recent postings about MS dumping it's price for it's OS. Why not bitch about that?
These MS shills comparing the cost of online storage, to the cost of local storage, must think we're idiots.
Why not compare apples to apples?
Compare google cloud storage, with other cloud storage. Maybe google will win, maybe not. But at least that is a valid comparison.
...can I pay them in Dogecoins?
Looking at my storage page today, I see:
Legacy plan
100 GB @ $4.99/month
Or I could switch to
100 GB @ $1.99/month
Now... I'm no maths whiz, but... what would I be losing, if I switch to the cheaper, seemingly identical package, I wonder?
to prevent data mining? How much of a hassle would that be?
If that's "cheap" what would you call https://mega.co.nz/
They offer 50GBytes for FREE...
50 / 0 = !@#%$^*&^&(*$%^&
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
I have a friend whose computer room burnt down because the desk fan pointed at the server to keep it cool died and caught alight. All data on hard drives lost. Very unhappy wife.
...there is no sig...
Dropbox still has one key feature that Google Drive can't figure out: incremental updates. That means that small changes in big files do not require the entire file to be uploaded again. IN your case, a large Truecrypt continuer will change frequently (or parts thereof). Dropbox won't blink an eye when it does delta change updates. Google Drive will upload the WHOLE thing once again. If you're using truecrypt, dropbox is your only practical choice.
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity
I have had two different houses in different towns flooded.
It's now subsidized by the NSA?
So I already have a NAS box, and it holds 2 drives, and I only have 1 in it. I had a drive die last week, and bought a 2TB drive for $69. Now if Google is selling cloud storage @ 1GB for $0.02 per month, then the equivalent of my 2TB drive would cost (here's the math so you can see: 2TB/1GB*0.02=$40. per month. Every month. When I buy the 2TB drive its a one time cost till the head crash. And its in a box used for backup, just like Google's cloud, except I have control over my NAS box (its on a local lan, not accessible over the internet). I like my NAS box. Its cheaper than Google's, and I know where my data is.... right over there.
The secret hiding in plain sight is the egress traffic costs.
Both Amazon and Google hike their egress traffic prices so that you want to do all your processing in their Cloud.
Just look at the cost of transfering 1TB OUT of the Google Cloud. It will cost you $120. So there is an equivalence between storing data for 6 months and trasferring it out once.
What you really need to understand is that storage is subsidised because of the network effect and lockin it provides. You can put your data there, but you cannot afford to get it out.
Just compare this to bulk transfer prices on ISPs to see how ridiculous the egress traffic prices are. On 100tb.com you get a server with 100TB egress for $200/month, which works out to $2 per TB, a fraction of what Google charge. Amazon is similar.
Amazon's CDN is consistently rated to be the worst in benchmarks, so although not a totally fair comparison, their network is certainly not "golden".
TL;DR the egress bandwidth is what you should look at.
From the user's point of view, the cost is a bit different. It's x cents per month for storage, plus whatever you pay for internet access.
And, of course, the fact that there's no question Uncle Sam will be pawing through your Rule 34 collection.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
99.99% of houses with a NAS do not burn due to meth heads in a year, so the reliability is the same.
These are official NAS-stats.
Unlimited storage for only a few bucks a month. I have been using their service for years and have never had any problems.
This is interesting but yet Google has bandwidth limits.
I prefer to use Copy.com service starting with 20GB with this link: http://goo.gl/2fttqn
No bandwidth limits nor file type limits.
Excellent service!
In case there are folks that aren't aware Flickr gives 1 Tb of Photo Storage for free.
And in other news websites, they make it CLEAR that 15GB of drive storage will cost you £0.00!
Go Slashadvert!
A "better" slashdot news article would of contained:
- Data transfer Benchmarks
- System infrastructure information
But seems we are way past that in 2014, trying to blind everyone with pure ignorance. Shame. Good news for Beta i suppose!
Well, there IS the unofficial google-drive-ocamlfuse project.
there is a difference between 0.02 dollars per month, and 0.02 cents per month?
... because of referrals. https://copy.com?r=Zv8zHi