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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At roughly $100/TB, and falling, I don’t see personally owned storage devices being displaced by this network-centric insanity.
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
:-)
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.
speaking of secure and private - where are your medical files now?
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.
I hope it’s more reliable than Gmail or Blogger.
Fortunately, I don’t have many medical files. But I’m sure they are in my “general file”.
And technology hasn’t advanced since then at all! ha ha
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.
About the same time that Sun started saying, “The Network is the Computer”?
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.
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.
I bet this would be real speedy with my dial-up connection at home.
Neither secure nor private.
Why should we want to make matters worse?
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.
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