Arthur Posted March 13, 2014 Posted March 13, 2014 Source: Google Drive Blog / Drive Storage Plans Having launched Google Drive just two years ago, we’re excited that so many people are now using it as their go-to place for keeping all their files. Whether it's all the footage of your kids' baseball games, the novel you're working on, or even just your grocery list for the week, we all have files that are too important to lose. Today, thanks to a number of recent infrastructure improvements, we’re able to make it more affordable for you to keep everything safe and easy to reach on any device, from anywhere. We've lowered the price of our monthly storage plans to $1.99 for 100GB (previously $4.99), $9.99 for 1TB (previously $49.99), and $99.99 for 10TB, with even more storage available if you need it. How big is a terabyte anyway? Well, that’s enough storage for you to take a selfie twice a day for the next 200 years and still have room left over for… shall we say… less important things. Like before, storage continues to work across Drive, Gmail and Google+ Photos. And, of course, the 15GB plan remains free. You can sign up for one of these new Google Drive storage plans at www.google.com/settings/storage. If you already pay for storage, you’ll automatically move to a better plan at no additional cost. You can visit the storage purchase page to make a change or review your account, and see the Help Center for more information on these simpler storage options.
Arthur Posted March 13, 2014 Author Posted March 13, 2014 For comparison, Dropbox charges $9.99 per month for 100GB. I wonder if they will lower their prices?
GREED Posted March 14, 2014 Posted March 14, 2014 I hope so I moved everything to Dropbox because I had 50Gb free but thay will be ending end of the year. Moved from Google which was 6 quid a month. Not much but have to watch the pennies these days. It's my cloud backup
Davit2005 Posted March 14, 2014 Posted March 14, 2014 Got interested but Just wondering what rights such services have to my data.
GREED Posted March 14, 2014 Posted March 14, 2014 Presumably if you believe the blurb the same as everyone else... none
jinnantonnixx Posted March 14, 2014 Posted March 14, 2014 Hmmm interesting. I've been looking for an easy solution for my parents to keep their photos backed up, yet readily available. I've looked at Flickr, but the interface is very convoluted. This might be just the ticket.
hardtailstar Posted March 14, 2014 Posted March 14, 2014 Interesting, Just looked at my Google drive and I've not filled up a quarter of the 15gb, didn't realize Google docs aren't included in the storage limit. So where I have created lots of google documents its not actually increased my storage size! if i ever get to 15gb i may invest in more space.
jinnantonnixx Posted March 14, 2014 Posted March 14, 2014 Time for a spring clean. Finding Large Attachments and Emails in GMail
dhicks Posted March 14, 2014 Posted March 14, 2014 Google drops Drive storage plan prices, 100GB now $1.99 per month That's £6 per TB per month, pretty much cost price at what the average consumer / small business could manage (assuming a £3,000 40TB server depreciated over 3 years and £100 a month co-location costs). Anyone any idea what the upload / download limits and/or bandwidth is like?
Arthur Posted March 14, 2014 Author Posted March 14, 2014 That's £6 per TB per month That's also the same price as Amazon Glacier in the U.S. East region, but without the retrieval fees and slow access! any idea what the upload / download limits and/or bandwidth is like? Google Drive doesn't have any bandwidth limits, although files can't be any larger than 1TB in size (up from 10GB). There is also a limit on the number of people you can share files with non-publicly.
dhicks Posted March 15, 2014 Posted March 15, 2014 Google Drive doesn't have any bandwidth limits, although files can't be any larger than 1TB in size (up from 10GB). Sounds perfect as a backup solution where you need to restore the occasional file, although I wonder how long it takes to upload / download a whole TB of data in a disaster-recovery situation. Makes me wonder if there's a call for a co-located solution - backup your files to Google, and have a service that also syncs them to a disk array in a rack somewhere, ready to send out via courier in case of emergency.
hawc Posted March 15, 2014 Posted March 15, 2014 I wonder if I could load all my data for backup on to a HDD and then mail it to Google for upload? Amazon Glacier will do this.
Arthur Posted March 25, 2014 Author Posted March 25, 2014 Google has just slashed their Cloud Storage prices to 2.6 cents per GB per month. Google Cloud Platform Blog: Google Cloud Platform Live - Blending IaaS and PaaS, Moore’s Law for the cloud
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