1GB of Google Drive Storage Now Costs Only $0.02 Per Month 335
SmartAboutThings writes "Up until today, I always had the impression that cloud storage was pretty expensive and I'm sure that many will agree with me. It's a good thing that some bright minds over at Google have the same impressions as they now have drastically discounted the monthly storage plans on Google Drive. The new monthly storage plans and their previous prices are as follows: $1.99 for 100GB (previously $4.99), $9.99 for 1TB (previously $49.99), and $99.99 for 10TB.The 2 dollar plan per month means that the price for a gigabyte gets down to an incredibly low price of only two cents per month."
Yeah, you can totally trust your data... (Score:5, Insightful)
I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
You can get a 1TB external for like, 80 bucks (Score:2, Insightful)
And you can use it anywhere. And it has USB 3.0 speed. And it won't be data mined by Google.
NSA Storage Service (Score:3, Insightful)
The NSA has an even better deal. The only price you pay for storage of all of your data is your freedom.
Re:Yeah, you can totally trust your data... (Score:5, Insightful)
Seriously. This "article" reads more like an ad. $120/year for 1 TB is more than 9 times what I'd pay for 5 years of a 1 TB internal SATA.
There are several problems with the whole "cloud" thing:
- I can buy a few terabytes of local storage for the same or less than paying Google
- Google constantly changes things (features, terms of service, etc) and if you don't like it, tough shit
- Encrypted or not, you have no control over your own data, they do
- ISPs severely throttle upload speeds. Getting a few terabytes into the cloud will take a really long time
Re:Yeah, you can totally trust your data... (Score:4, Insightful)
If you take a photo of your own nude baby child and upload it to your Google Drive, I'm sure the law is badly written enough to the point that you were "uploading child porn on the Internet".
The morale of this story is: don't have children, the government will use them against you one day.
Re:Yeah, you can totally trust your data... (Score:5, Insightful)
And when that 1TB drive fails?
Cloud storage usually comes with a ridiculously high durability. S3 offers 99.999999999% over the course of a year. Your 1TB drive wont.
Re:Now we have an answer to the 20TB backup questi (Score:5, Insightful)
But that NAS is likely sitting at your location, which means if it gets burned down by insane meth heads or swallowed by a sinkhole, you're good and screwed.
For my business, I use DFS that replicates our shared drives at all three locations, so I feel fairly confident that an almost up-to-date mirror of the data is being held at two other locations, all of which are separated by a lot of miles. Coupled with offsite backup, I feel the business data is secure.
At the moment my personal data is on Dropbox, with my absolutely confidential data in a Truecrypt container. Still, Dropbox is kind of expensive for the 7 or 8gb of data I'd like to store, so I will definitely be considering Google's offering. Since both work the same, at least for the PC versions, in that each computer has a full copy of the data, if Google goes offline or pulls the plug, I still have my multiple copies sitting around.
Re:Why do you think $.02*12/year/GB is cheap? (Score:5, Insightful)
You fail to consider the cost of electricity, or the cost of redundancy in case the hard drive crashes.
Re:Yeah, you can totally trust your data... (Score:2, Insightful)
Wow. Just... wow. Google doesn't run S3.