Posted on 03/03/2009 9:31:49 AM PST by george76
Google Drive, or Gdrive as it is better known, has to be the most anticipated Google product so far. When it arrives, Gdrive will likely cause a major paradigm shift in how we use computers and bring Google one step closer to dethroning Windows on your desktop.
The service has the potential to eclipse even Gmail, Google's second best-known product after their google.com search engine. That said, it's no wonder users have been ripe with anticipation for years - yes, that's how long the rumors have persisted. Gdrive is basically online storage where Google servers have enough capacity to hold the entire contents of your hard drive. It will likely also come with enough brains to do cool tricks now with bigger things down the road - like booting your computer from online drive to load the Google operating system.
Gdrive is basically a cloud-based storage that should have two faces: A desktop client that keeps local and online files and folders in two-directional sync via a web interface for accessing your desktop files anywhere and anytime, using any network-enabled computer. In addition, it will come tightly integrated with other Google services ...
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Google Drive
Yeah. I’m gonna be dependent on A) The internet and B) A known collaborator with Chinese Communists, to make sure I can access my personal files.
Riiiiiiight.
google is the KTel of the internet.
Now what?
So Google’s minions could look through your hard drive to find anti-government sympathies? Anything critical of the big “O” and you get a visit from jack booted thugs.
I guess I'd like to see an explanation for how that would work.
Oracle tried this about 15 years ago. Tried, failed.
Cue Hal 9000 voice...
When it arrives? There's been a third party app that does this for a few years now.
Course a google version would be more seemless.
That’s a lot of storage and maintenance thereof, seems like a drain on profits.
People will become very aware that their “upload” speed aint the same as their “download” speed.... Great idea until you need to store a 1.6 Gig ISO somewhere.
Wow, this sounds really private and secure.
Nothing I’d like to see better than the two commie owners of this infestational influence go belly up.
No kidding, just last week the internet was down for 2-3 hours here at work. Twiddles thumbs.......
Um no, I choose to keep my information private, google can go take a hike!
Im working with about 6 terabytes around my house. Google isn’t going to give me anything like that in terms of storage, even if I trusted them, which I don’t.
In a nation that can elect an Obama - allow the damage he has wrought in just a few months and STILL not storm Washington to tar, feather and run him and the entire DNC out of town -- things have changed...
NOW - this could attract enough folks to make it profitable.+
I was thinking the same thing...these 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!
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