Free storage for you: Google Drive to arrive today (24th)

Summary: Google’s new cloud-storage service is here. The Google Drive comes with 5GBs of free storage and up to 16 Terabytes of storage for paying customers.

The rumors were true. Google’s personal cloud-based storage service, Google Drive, has been released today with 5GB of free storage. It includes both free and commercial versions. The minimum free service will include 5GBs of free storage, and you’ll be able to buy additional space for up to, brace yourself, 16 terabytes of storage.

In addition, Google Docs’ available storage for your documents has moved up within the last twelve hours from 1GB of storage to 5GBs. You can see if you have this additional storage for yourself by going to your Google Docs setting page. You’ll see about half-way down the page a listing for storage. This seems to be, for the moment, only available if you’re using the English language version of Google Docs.

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Hands on with Google Drive (Review)

Summary: Google’s free cloud storage is finally here, and it looks pretty darn good. But, Google Drive is far, far, more than just storage. It’s combines free storage and Google Docs into a nearly seamless cloud-based office suite.

It took Google long enough. We’ve been hearing rumors for years that Google was going to release personal cloud storage, the Google Drive. Well, wait no more, the Google Drive is here. But, it’s much more than just that. It’s a nearly seamless integration of free and cheap storage with Google Docs.

To install Google Drive as a local client—ala the Dropbox model where the cloud drive appears in your operating system’s file manager as just another directory—you need to have either a Mac or Windows system. Mind you, Google Drive also will work just fine with Linux… but only from your Google Drive Web page. I’m not happy about that.

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Pricing: Google is offering new users, 5GB of storage for free with upgrades starting at 25GB for $2.49/month, 100GB for $4.99/month or even 1TB for $49.99/month. Interestingly, if a user upgrades to a paid account, his Gmail account also gets automatically upgraded to 25GB. On this occasion, Google also increased the free storage in Gmail from the existing 7.5 GB to 10 GB to all users.

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