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1GB of Google Drive Storage Now Costs Only $0.02 Per Month

Posted by timothy on from the even-I-can-do-that-math dept.

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."

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  1. Yeah, you can totally trust your data... by ravenlord_hun · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...with the company that specializes in data mining!

    I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

    1. Re:Yeah, you can totally trust your data... by alen · · Score: 5, Funny

      OMG, google will know where i've taken all the photos of my kids

    2. Re:Yeah, you can totally trust your data... by tiberus · · Score: 5, Funny

      Ever get the feeling Google should be paying us $.02/month per gigabyte, just sayin'

    3. Re:Yeah, you can totally trust your data... by neoform · · Score: 5, Insightful

      And when that 1TB drive fails?

      Cloud storage usually comes with a ridiculously high durability. S3 offers 99.999999999% over the course of a year. Your 1TB drive wont.

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  2. Slashvertisement? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Amazon Glacier by hawguy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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)

  4. Re:Encryption? by ArcadeMan · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm worst than that, I make randomly-written files, compress them to ZIP, compress them again in RAR, put that inside a GZ, ROT13 the whole thing and then encrypt it.

    And for the cherry on top, I name the file "confidential_data.dmg" before uploading it.

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