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Google announces big price cuts on paid extra storage for GMail, Picasa Web
If you want a little extra elbow room for your email, attachments, and shared photos plans now start at a whopping 20 gigabytes for only $5 per year. Not enough, you say? You'll be happy to know that Google offers up to a full terabyte for $256 annually. Granted, right now you can only use this space for GMail and Picasa Web stuff.
I think I'll be passing on that 16 TB option Sebastian screencapped for now, thanks.
At any rate, Chrome OS in on the way and that likely means we'll finally get our hands on the elusive GDrive as well. Here's hoping it does, anyway.
In the event that Google does open things up, how do their plans stack up against other popular offerings? Let's look at DropBox. For 50Gb of storage, you'll spend $10 per month. With Google's new plans, $20 will get you 80Gb - for the entire year. That's not too shabby.
Sure would be nice if we could use it for all-purpose storage. You listening, Google?
Who's with me?
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Mike Zachaczewski said 1:36AM on 11-11-2009
I completely agree. I would pay the annual fee if it could be an all purpose storage. Would be great to back up some important data.
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JoePalma said 1:13AM on 11-11-2009
As long as they get rid of the file size limit on files I'm would be so down for this.
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Nick said 1:42AM on 11-11-2009
I was paying $20 a year for the extra GBs but I really don't need 80GBs now, unless they allow more than just email and photo storage. So, I'm downgrading to $5 level.
I mainly use the storage for photo backup and hosting my eBay listing photos.
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enerGI said 1:46AM on 11-11-2009
Ohhhh Yeah, that would be great if it was available for all purpose storage. Sure would stick it to some of the other nuftys offering cyber storage space at stupid prices.
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Scott said 2:26AM on 11-11-2009
Or even better
http://www.backblaze.com/
$5 unlimited.
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Vin Thomas said 12:13PM on 11-11-2009
Backblaze is great. I use it for myself for backup. But this is different. I would love to see this kind of pricing on a "Dropbox-ish" service. C'mon GDrive!
Max Man said 2:31AM on 11-11-2009
furry fandom? No one noticed that tab?
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notatoad said 2:36AM on 11-11-2009
nice tabs
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NyaR said 6:00PM on 11-11-2009
yea, I get unlimited transfer/data with my 5.99 home 1and1 plan
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Eric said 8:59AM on 11-11-2009
I think Apple better lower their MobileMe prices...I might be converting to Google
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JayMonster said 9:08AM on 11-11-2009
My guess would be, the reason that the price can be so much cheaper than the others storage options you mentioned, whether for e-mail or pictures, it is far less bandwidth intensive. Yes, you do have to upload the pictures, but once they are there, that is pretty much it... it is then for viewing. Same with e-mails that even with attachments, tends to be far less bandwidth intensive than a repository where people are constantly up/downloading files.
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David said 5:52PM on 11-11-2009
wow... my work inbox is only 40mb :(
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Tony Montana said 7:20PM on 11-16-2009
I've always liked the idea of online storage because aside from privacy issues that I think are blown out of proportion, you are basically allowed to access the files you have uploaded from any PC on the planet.
A while ago though Valve launched "Steam Cloud". I'm sure most of you are familiar with Steam Cloud but for those that are not it is basically a nice little system that allows you to save your steam game saves into the cloud.
It's really enchanced my gaming tenfold. Now I can wake up in the morning, play a little Half Life 2, save the game and then go to work. At lunchtime I take my laptop to a cafe, use their wi-fi to get online and pick up where I left off.
I've always wondered when it will be possible to save your PC to a cloud.
I mean imagine having all your settings saved onto the cloud so any PC you log into(with the appropriate OS) can load your settings from the cloud and you will be sitting at what is basically your computer with your desktop etc
I think with the advent of Google Docs everything is moving online anyway but being able to access your workspace and essentially have your very own PC anywhere you go in the world would be a big boon to the whole idea of online lives.
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