Throw your hard drive away, Google's Gdrive arriving in 2009

Tigervision Media ^ | January 19, 2009 | Christian Zibreg

[ClearCase_guy]

Bingo

[ArrogantBustard]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahahaha...

hahahahah

haha

ha

At roughly $100/TB, and falling, I don’t see personally owned storage devices being displaced by this network-centric insanity.

[Jagman]

Google’s WAY too interested in vacuuming up every little of personal data on you to ever give them access to your hard drive...

[Jagman]

Google’s WAY too interested in vacuuming up every little of personal data on you to ever give them access to your hard drive...

[VeniVidiVici]

I had to upgrade the firmware in my Olympus camera last week.

The driver FORCED me to be connected to the internet to gain access and install the patch. It wouldn’t let me download it to install at a later time.

I was fit to be tied.

Although I was in Hooters at the time and their wifi was down. So at least I wasn’t bored
:-)

[AFreeBird]

No way in Hell am I going to use google, or any other on-line storage system, for my personal data.

This is stupid. First off, netowrks, anywhere in the cain, can go down, and then you're cut off from your files.

All that data in a single place is a tempting target. One breach, and everyone's data is subject to access and/or corruption.

Nope, no way, no how.

[IronKros]

Now mix having the contents of everyone's hard drive available with this article from the UK. ... allow any Minister by order to take from anywhere any information gathered for one purpose, and use it for any other purpose

[tioga]

speaking of secure and private - where are your medical files now?

[napscoordinator]

This sounds very good to me. I love Google and hope this is as good as it sounds. It would be like being able to use e-mail everywhere...now you would be able to access all your records and work anywhere you are without having to take thumb drives with you. I really like this.

[Moonman62]

I hope it’s more reliable than Gmail or Blogger.

[Retired Greyhound]

Fortunately, I don’t have many medical files. But I’m sure they are in my “general file”.

[Knitebane]

Setting up a diskless boot

Diskless Remote Boot in Linux

[rwrcpa1]

And technology hasn’t advanced since then at all! ha ha

[a fool in paradise]

Google’s WAY too interested in vacuuming up every little of personal data on you to ever give them access to your hard drive...

Google is vacuuming up ever little bit of personal data they can get on you whether YOU give them access or not. Recall that they sent vans through neighborhood photographing street shots of all homes, etc and coordinate these with satellite maps of your home.

Credit card companies are all too willing to share personal information.

All in the name of "market research" I'm sure.

[Theo]

About the same time that Sun started saying, “The Network is the Computer”?

[Reeses]

now you would be able to access all your records and work anywhere you are without having to take thumb drives with you.

Thumb drives are easy to lug around. And you can set up your own network disk drive at home and access it from anywhere, so why would you pay to use somebody else's? Gdrive will be great though for distributing bootleg intellectual property to thousands of people. Being a deep pocket Google will get sued. This idea has been tried many times before and as a business it has always failed.

[Grampa Dave]

Good Summary re Google. You left out that the elite controllers of Google have been in bed with Zer0 and the Clintoons for a long time.

No way, would I trust them with my private data.

[Liberty1970]

I bet this would be real speedy with my dial-up connection at home.

[ArrogantBustard]

where are your medical files now?

Neither secure nor private.

Why should we want to make matters worse?

[napscoordinator]

I would have to figure out how to network a hard drive from home would be the first step. I guess I was just thinking of the gdrive like e-mail, but it could be different.