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Throw your hard drive away, Google's Gdrive arriving in 2009
Tigervision Media ^ | January 19, 2009 | Christian Zibreg

Posted on 03/03/2009 9:31:49 AM PST by george76

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To: Grampa Dave; mikelets456

bttt

supporters of the Gay agenda, Prop 8 and other crap.

Yes, here is all my financial Data!!

No thanks!! I’ll keep my back up hard drive!


41 posted on 03/03/2009 10:16:13 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: ArrogantBustard

just pointing that out....we are already on the road to NO privacy...this would just be another step closer.


42 posted on 03/03/2009 10:18:18 AM PST by tioga
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To: tioga

Right ... one of several reasons why I won’t be using g00gle’s network storage system.

the other reasons involve price and performance of owned hardware.


43 posted on 03/03/2009 10:20:46 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ...

Yeah---I don't think so.

44 posted on 03/03/2009 10:22:45 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: AFreeBird

I use Macs and have a time capsule to automatically back up my stuff. It works quickly and quietly and it stays on my property.

If I want to use some data when I am away, I either carry a laptop or a thumb drive.


45 posted on 03/03/2009 10:22:53 AM PST by Tom D. (Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. - Benj. Franklin)
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To: rwrcpa1

“And technology hasn’t advanced since then at all!”

“The more things change the more they stay the same.”

Technology hasn’t overcome the issues from then and once you have some more experience maybe you’ll understand why.


46 posted on 03/03/2009 10:24:07 AM PST by CodeToad (Liberalism is Communism, and both are a mental disorder. Grow up.)
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To: river rat

“NOW - this could attract enough folks to make it profitable.+”

I suppose you are right...there will be plenty of Obama voters to buy into the thing.


47 posted on 03/03/2009 10:25:27 AM PST by CodeToad (Liberalism is Communism, and both are a mental disorder. Grow up.)
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To: a fool in paradise

“Recall that they sent vans through neighborhood photographing street shots of all homes, etc and coordinate these with satellite maps of your home.”

Scary but, also, a big old laugh. A local very well off guy had suspected that his wife was having an affair during the workday and when he was out of town.

The online service that guestimates/appraises your home and is connected with Goggle, had two photos of his property and driveways. The satellite photo showed a very unique vehicle and so did the drive by street photo.

An acquaintance of the home owner/well off guy saw the downloads and sent him the link to the service with the pictures. He went to a PI and the unique vehicle was traced to a so called friend, and a sting was set up. Sure enough his wife and so called friend fell for the sting and ended up with more photos this time not courtesy of Google.

The guy is now out of a very bad marriage, and other guy lost half of everything he owned. The joke is the wife and so called friend got Googled.


48 posted on 03/03/2009 10:33:51 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Zer0's friends are criminals, foreign/domestic terrorists, perverts, sexual deviates or tax cheats!)
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To: george76

yea... i’m going to toss my 750g SATA-300 drive that has a 3Gbps throughput.. all for a net connection of what? 3-4Mbps??

yea, right.


49 posted on 03/03/2009 10:34:14 AM PST by sten
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To: Tom D.

I run Linux, and use “rsync” to tertiary storage.


50 posted on 03/03/2009 10:37:07 AM PST by AFreeBird
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To: napscoordinator

SO.... you believe in sharing....everything?


51 posted on 03/03/2009 10:44:01 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (What happened to my IRAs)
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To: Liberty1970

You might really age waiting for the downloads.


52 posted on 03/03/2009 10:56:12 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Zer0's friends are criminals, foreign/domestic terrorists, perverts, sexual deviates or tax cheats!)
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To: CodeToad
Oracle tried this about 15 years ago. Tried, failed.

To be clear, I think this is a terrible idea, but, in all fairness, it is a bad idea that is a lot more practical today than it was 15 years ago.

53 posted on 03/03/2009 11:21:38 AM PST by Señor Zorro ("The ability to speak does not make you intelligent"--Qui-Gon Jinn)
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To: AFreeBird
I run Linux, and use “rsync” to tertiary storage.

Yup. I can reload my box exactly to my last rsync in minutes.

Excellent stuff!

54 posted on 03/03/2009 11:43:31 AM PST by zeugma (Will it be nukes or aliens? Time will tell.)
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To: george76

The only thing I’d use this for is backups, and I’d encrypt them.


55 posted on 03/03/2009 11:49:14 AM PST by antiRepublicrat (Sacred cows make the best hamburger.)
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To: george76

Maybe for encrypted backup files, but even then the amount of data I have would take hours even on a broadband connection.


56 posted on 03/03/2009 12:13:38 PM PST by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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To: napscoordinator
I would have to figure out how to network a hard drive from home would be the first step

VPN with really strong IPSec, and have your "key" on a thumb drive. An RSA device would be better. But under no circumstances use a "kiosk" or "community terminal" to access it. Too easy for key loggers to be installed on the system.

57 posted on 03/03/2009 12:16:28 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: george76
Sorry...not going to happen in my house. One thing they can't do is match the speed of running a drive clone operation from local Master to local Slave drive....which is my preferred method. Then, a DR is nothing more than a plug and play drive swap.

Then there's the security issue....

58 posted on 03/03/2009 12:31:47 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage...)
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To: george76
Gdrive

Is that anything like the Gspot?

59 posted on 03/03/2009 12:57:06 PM PST by Born Conservative (Bohicaville: http://bohicaville.wordpress.com/)
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To: Born Conservative
Is that anything like the Gspot?

"That's a myth!"

60 posted on 03/03/2009 12:59:47 PM PST by Future Snake Eater ("Get out of the boat and walk on the water with us!”--Sen. Joe Biden)
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