After all the buzz and speculation, it’s finally been released.
Google Drive.
It’s here.
And these are the details:
Google Drive
- Free
5 GB of Drive
10 GB of Gmail
1 GB of Picasa - $2.49 / Month
+25 GB of Drive and Picasa
25 GB of Gmail - $4.99 / Month
+100 GB of Drive and Picasa
25 GB Gmail - Other
Upgrade options up to 16 TB available
Get all the details and get started on the Google Drive website.
Will this pull you away from Dropbox, SugarSync or any other cloud drive you’re currently using?
[Note: Some Google users are reportedly being told that, "Your Google Drive is not ready, yet." You can then sign-up to be notified when it is ready. Our best guess is, more responded than Google initially anticipated.]
Where are you getting the 10GB for Gmail?
Click to upgrade your Google Drive account, see here?
I am not getting that when I visit the upgrade page, though I’m on a Google apps for domains account, and I have already enabled Google Drive. Of interest though my Gmail account storage quota is moving north of 8.1GB and last night it was somewhere in the range of 7.8 so maybe it will land at 10GB?
Maybe so. I haven’t tried with any of my Google App accounts yet, either. Maybe that will be different. Or, like you said, it’ll land on 10GB.
I’m a happy Dropbox user and won’t change only because it’ll take me 2-weeks at high speed to move ALLLLLLLL my data over to Google Drive. Plus, it’ll eat up my monthly bandwidth, so what I’ll save moving to Google Drive will cost me in extra bandwidth.
I know what you mean!
And here’s yet another reason why I wouldn’t switch to Google Drive. It’s an article stating that according to Google’s terms, Google owns the data you upload. Scary.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57420551-93/who-owns-your-files-on-google-drive/
I’ve also heard that the article isn’t accurate. You’d need to read the actual TOS (as I haven’t), but I couldn’t see Google being as dumb as that to ask you to give up all intellectual property rights on stuff you uploaded.
True. This isn’t uncommon.
I already use DropBox, SugarSync, and Box.net (which has Google Docs functionality). I’ve also used ZumoDrive, but haven’t used it in a while. If GDrive has more functionality in it’s free version than SugarSync, then maybe it will be my #1 choice, but I almost have 10GB on SugarSync free thanks to a few promos and referrals. So, if the desktop sync is awesome, then I’m in.
Word.
We are a multi-church site. Our goal is to share files with google drive among several church campuses. How would you suggest setting this up? Is there one main admin? Is it better to have folders separating the campuses and give access to those files OR to have separate google drive accounts which can take advantage of 5GB each? In this case, is there a way to have one central main admin? Sorry, I am not that familiar with G drive or drop box and want to set it up correctly. Thank you.
I would assume that you are wanting to setup a “shared folder” across all campuses with a minimum of fuss. The simplest option in Google Drive would be to simply share one folder from one account to all campuses and then setup subfolders as needed. The limitation would be storage. The 5GB would be split across all campuses. You can upgrade the storage for the “admin” user if its a normal gmail account, but I am not positive about an individual user inside Google apps.
A slightly more complicated solution would be for each campus to share a folder with every other campus. I could see some interesting potential complications happening there as well. It all depends if your staff operate primary out of their web browser or off of applications installed on their computers. You might find a Dropbox solution easier to deploy.
I agree with Daniel. I can tell you that the 8BIT team is six guys, two states and two countries and Dropbox works like a breeze!