Excerpted From KOMONEWS
Google is hoping to build the world’s largest digital filing cabinet in the latest attempt to deepen people’s dependence on its services.
The Internet search leader began its pursuit of the audacious goal Tuesday with the much-anticipated debut of Google Drive, a product that stores personal documents, photos, videos and a wide range of other digital content on Google’s computers.
One of the advantages of using cloud storage is by keeping files in massive data centers, users will be able to call up the information on their smartphones, tablet computers, laptops and just about any other Internet-connected device. Content can also be more easily shared among friends, family and co-workers by sending links to the information instead of emailing large attachments.
There are different price points for the amount of storage you may need, but the first 5GB is free. The service is initially available for installation on Windows-based computers, Mac computers, laptops running on Google’s Chrome operating system and smartphones powered by Google’s Android software. A version compatible with Apple Inc.’s hot-selling iPhone and iPad is due in the next few weeks.
From looking around, the price points seem very competitive compared to services like Dropbox which offers 2GB for free or ICloud which does offer 5GB free and then charges for extra storage.
Although it is not available everywhere yet (I was not able to get in) you can go to http://drive.google.com and have them send you a notification when your "drive" is ready.
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-Bryan