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Google Drive: The Ultimate Online Backup?

January 29, 2009

hard_drive copy As news comes that Google Mail is set for offline usage by taking advantage of Google Gears, I continue to pine for the elusive gDrive. According to Google Blogoscoped, it mightn’t be far off.

Having used Google Docs for some time, I’ve found it to be excellent to work on documents online. Ultimately the advantage is that it’s stored on Google’s servers meaning that I can work on them from any web enabled computer, regardless of OS, browser and without the need to carry a flash drive.

I have high hopes for the Google Drive as it should offer a good off-site backup solution. If done well, I hope that it’ll have lots of storage as even my photos folder is larger than the rather generous 25GB that MS offer with their Skydrive online storage. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be a good way to sync a backup to Skydrive for a selection of files/folders (if anyone knows leave a comment). Presumably, it’d also combat a mild frustration of mine in transferring data between NTFS, HFS, and FAT file system. Therefore if Google offer up free (I might even stretch to cheap) online storage, sign me up.


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6 comments

  1. Google are getting involved with a hell of a lot of stuff aint they? The phone is just cringeworthy if you ask me… I’d prefer they just stick to what they know =/

         by Oooodz January 29, 2009 at 12:26 pm

  2. Like most of their other ventures, Android aims to find out more about people’s location/interests to taylor advertising to suit what they already want. I’m not too keen on the G1, it looks so plasticky, but it should be interesting to see what becomes of the Android platform since it has huge potential.

         by Chris Chapman January 29, 2009 at 1:22 pm

  3. Right on! It is so important to backup your valuable content. Every day thousands of computer files are needlessly put at risk. Finding a solution that is right for you is so important.

    Take care.

    -Jordan.

         by Jordan Janisse January 30, 2009 at 4:54 am

  4. Whats those links? spam? I ain’t clicking nothin.

         by Oooodz February 1, 2009 at 4:18 pm

  5. @Oooodz, thanks for the headsup. WordPress flagged it, but I forgot to come back to it. :|

         by Chris Chapman February 2, 2009 at 9:40 pm

  6. Ohhh lol no worries :) I just have bought a website too with a word press blog, I’ll let you know when I have it up!!

         by Oooodz February 3, 2009 at 2:16 pm

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