Comments on: Rumor: Google Drive Ready to Launch in the First Week of April?

By: Trinae Ross

Trinae Ross — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:27:00 +0000

Give users folder syncing and cross-platform support and then we can talk about switching.

By: Josh Groff

Josh Groff — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:39:00 +0000

If the servers are better than Dropbox, I’ll back up my .apk files there and store an RUU for safe keeping, 1 GB is more than enough for minor things, my 50GB Dropbox can hold my music (until the HTC promo ends in another 8 or so months.)

By: Noyfb

Noyfb — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:27:00 +0000

I need a way to store the videos I’ve taken with my gnex, the hd video files have eaten up all my memory on my phone. Box won’t allow video storage because the file is too large. Where can I store hd video files from my phone?

By: MonicaJ71

MonicaJ71 — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 06:16:00 +0000

Well 2 months back also there was news about Google drive and now again, It’s been a long wait. All this time I was hunting for some online tools for cloud storage and found CollateBox http://www.collatebox.com/ went through their recent video,. It’s simply amazing. Have to wait for this one.

By: Dan Brown

Dan Brown — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:49:00 +0000

You mean 100 Gb, riiiight?

By: GRAND MASTER SEN$Ei {{-_-}}™

GRAND MASTER SEN$Ei {{-_-}}™ — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:17:00 +0000

2GB at least. {{-_-}}

By: AE35

AE35 — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:33:00 +0000

The Verge has a supposed pic and a little more info:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/9/2786191/google-drive-cloud-storage-service-launching-soon

By: AE35

AE35 — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:26:00 +0000

It makes sense to share space over all their cloud services. Whether they can do it right away is a different question. Google has been working on GDrive for years, canceled it, now it appears resurrected.

All this was started by a WSJ story: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204369404577211961645711988.html

The 1GB thing sounds like a rumor or April Fools thing. Can’t believe so many people are spewing discontent over some likely FUD.

By: quiklives

quiklives — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:05:00 +0000

Ah-ha – I just asked above if anyone knew – I have that 20GB as well, do you think or does anyone know if that will be shared with Drive as well?

By: quiklives

quiklives — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:04:00 +0000

If I already pay for extra space in Google Docs, etc, does that carry over to this? Anyone know?

By: Ben Rollier

Ben Rollier — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:21:00 +0000

“Google is looking to offer 1GB for free storage”

I find that highly unlikely, unless they don’t want to complete at all in the cloud storage market. Microsoft Skydrive is 25 GB for free and Dropbox is 2 GB.

I suspect the free offering will be larger than 1 GB.

By: AE35

AE35 — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:20:00 +0000

25MB to be specific. Great for storing your Justin Bieber MP3s.

By: AE35

AE35 — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:18:00 +0000

My uninformed and speculative opinion is that they will give you a substantial amount of space (1GB = April 1st?) and that space is shared between Gmail, Google+, Picasa, Google Docs, Google Music and Google Drive.

Once you sign up for one of these services, you have instant access and incentive to use them all and they become one-stop shopping for cloud services. Then they make most of their money on all that ad space on the side of the UI.

Unless this whole rumor is BS

By: AE35

AE35 — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:01:00 +0000

April 1st?

By: AE35

AE35 — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:49:00 +0000

It’s not free. You have to swear allegiance to the Dark SIde