Comments on: Google Drive Support Pages Spotted, Docs Storage Upped to 5GB – Release Imminent?

By: gmanthebrave

gmanthebrave — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:24:00 +0000

I think you are onto something brilliant Jeffrey! I would even like to see my Gmail storage and
Google Drive
integrated, which shouldn’t be too difficult for a company like Google. That would seal the deal for me since I used
up all of my Gmail storage with photos and videos already. Actually, I am surprised at how much room HD
takes up, and when my family was filling up the 55 hours of HD on our old Dish
DVR, we would fight all the time over the space. Ever since I got the Hopper whole-home DVR from
Dish though the fighting has stopped since we have 250 hours. The kicker is that a Dish co-worker told me
today that a new software release allows the hard drive to be re-partitioned
and I will get 500 hours of HD on the two terabyte hard drive. Perhaps in light of other companies that give
more for free, Google will reconsider their 5 GB.

By: ddh819

ddh819 — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:58:00 +0000

Docs not counting might mean, if you convert a file to Docs format, it doesn’t count against your storage quota, which is how it is now.

By: ry_ry

ry_ry — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:39:00 +0000

Yeah, they put your soul on a Google server but now they’ll let you have access to it…5 GB’s at a time.

By: tjhrulz

tjhrulz — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:19:00 +0000

You made the right choice

By: Bob Martin

Bob Martin — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:17:00 +0000

that would be perfect if they did that

By: Youre My Boy Bloo

Youre My Boy Bloo — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:10:00 +0000

Amen brotha

By: BrianWenger

BrianWenger — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:56:00 +0000

This needs to be available to app developers to be able to save data in a user’s personal cloud (game progress, etc.) so switching between devices is no issue.

By: Jeffrey Tarman

Jeffrey Tarman — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:53:00 +0000

Sorry to post a link from a different site, but the info was accidentally posted on a French blog:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/04/24/breaking-google-drive-cloud-service-accidentally-exposed-on-googles-french-blog/

So it looks like Docs will be part of the Drive but not count towards the storage. So I’m guessing you would essentially have 10 GB of space?

By: Google Slave

Google Slave — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:46:00 +0000

One more thing in my life that Google will run. Not complaining I sold my soul to Google years ago.

By: John

John — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:44:00 +0000

Heh, my thoughts exactly..well put.

By: Droidzilla

Droidzilla — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:41:00 +0000

This is going to be the kicker, and the crux upon which it will either succeed or simply become another arrow in Google’s quiver. I’ll use it no matter what since I’m a Google ho, but the general public needs more coaxing.

By: RandomJSF

RandomJSF — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:30:00 +0000

I am inordinately excited about this. I think the prospect of integrating yet another piece of my life into Google’s empire just strikes a chord with me.

Google is definitely my favorite overlord. They’ve got just about every other piece of my life; hell, even my corporate email is a Google Apps solution.

By: John

John — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:20:00 +0000

can’t wait to see how this gets implemented!
(across desktops/mobile/etc)

By: Jeffrey Tarman

Jeffrey Tarman — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:05:00 +0000

I’m kind of thinking that since they upped the storage of Docs to 5 GB that they may just rename it to Google Drive, change the icon and have the feature of a built in editor. And I could live with that.

By: sc0rch3d

sc0rch3d — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:03:00 +0000

i wish goog would find a way to collapse docs / images / email into a single UI….they’re all files, why do we have different interfaces to work with?