“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,” Scott Johnston, Director of Product Management, writes via the Official Google Blog. “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,” Johnston writes. “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.”
Johnston, “You can sign up for one of these new Google Drive 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.”
Source: Official Google Blog
Great! That is easier for the NSA to grab your data from the Google servers in stead of having to hack your personal equipment. Google should just build their storage server farm building right against the NSA building and run some wires between them.
It’s worse than that. The NSA probably paid them to build the server farm. The NSA owns it; Google just collects your monthly fee.
If you wear a baseball cap over your tinfoil one, it will still show. Try wearing a toque over it instead.
In less than a year you’ve paid for that 1TB of storage. Granted, Google backs it up for you, but I still don’t see the benefits of keeping personal data like this in the cloud for anything other than transitional purposes (e.g., moving data between devices).
A USB 1TB external drive can be easily had for $80. Back up your files there. As for transferring large amounts of data to other people, if 5GB isn’t enough (free services provide this) I’m not sure transmitting the data “through the cloud” is your best solution because of the bandwidth involved.
Oh well, I guess I don’t match the use case.
Have Google Store my files? LOL Thats funny.
You pay them to store it and others pay them to analyze and aggregate it. What a racket. No thanks.
How about this. I have a client with about 1.5 terabytes of online storage they constantly access. I’m constantly backing it up with TimeMachine and once a week I take a full disk to disk copy of the data.
It’s a pain in the butt, but it’s cheap.
Now what if I just backed up everything to Google Docs, then backed up changes on an ongoing basis to Google Docs. In the event of a disaster that data would be well offsite and I wouldn’t have to drop by to pick up disks all the time.
Hmmm… I could even back up changes to Google Docs, then back up changes to my office from Google Docs. The price makes it attractive.
You would do that to your clients?????
Backblaze:
– $5 a month (or less).
– UNLIMITED space.
– Top notch software.
– End to end ENCRYPTED (‘Trust No One’ compliant).
– Free restoration of data.
– Free trial.
http://www.backblaze.com
Beat that Goggle.
Google snoops:
Never EVER will I use your services again, not after I learned you were reading my freaking emails.
“TheloniousMac”: The company you’re supporting is paving the way for every dystopian future scenario that can be reasonably foreseen. It is YOU that is paying for the assault on freedom and privacy that we are currently witnessing.
The problem is that for every one person that is concerned about privacy there are a hundred fools like you too lazy to care.
I wish Apple would match the pricing!!!!!