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join:2004-10-12
Aurora, CO | Good Idea This could turn out to be a very useful tool, but it could also turn out to be a flopper. With the deep pockets of Google though I don't think this would fail. Would be a nice way to backup some files to an off-site location... | |
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King Of All And Nothing
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join:2004-07-31
Stevensville, MD
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| Re: Good Idea I doubt they sell any data they mine. While their privacy policies aren't the best they aren't the worst either. I can see them scanning file types and names and then offering ads on whatever type of application that is used to access those files. However, if this does come to fruition I think they would allow users to map their GDrive bypassing all of those ads. (Much as you can use POP3 with gmail and see no ads.) I doubt they will scan inside files unless you chose to open the file as HTML (The option they have when you do a web search and find PDF files. | |
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join:2006-01-14
Austin, TX | Privacy concerns are moot if you can just encrypt first then store. Google would see only unreadable blobs.
If it requires using some proprietary software on the client side then I wouldn't trust it. | |
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nekote
join:2000-12-16
Hopkinton, MA
| How many MB does the average person create/month? How many MB of data does the average person create.
per unit time - Hour, Day, Week, Month, Year
Data that Google is not already harvesting / storing?
(Not email, blogs, web posts, web pages posted, ... )
How much, additional / incremental, content created?
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| robie88
join:2003-04-19
New York, NY | good idea....the only problem is what happens when you realize that the government can ask to see a copy of it whenever they want? I don't plan on making things easier for the neo-gestapo anytime soon. | |
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join:2002-12-11
Larrabee, IA
| Re: Good Idea good idea....the only problem is what happens when you realize that the government can ask to see a copy of it whenever they want? I don't plan on making things easier for the neo-gestapo anytime soon
Relax, the government doesn't want to see your Britney Spears collection. 
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join:2006-01-14
Austin, TX | Re: Good Idea But store your mp3 collection, and the RIAA might like to have a look. | |
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Blasterbator
Sent By Grocery Clerks
join:2001-02-20
Jackson, MS |
This could turn out to be a very useful tool, but it could also turn out to be a flopper.
Nice job, I think you covered all the bases.
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chakey
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join:2004-06-14
Gladstone, NJ
clubs: | 10MB Limit? Isn't this something you can do already (although not with the blessing of Google?) If this becomes a Google-sanctioned project, I wonder if the 10MB per file limit will be lifted? | |
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iDonDon
join:2001-12-21
Fort Lauderdale, FL | Nothing Special Its just in response to Microsoft's aquisition on foldershare »www.foldershare.com
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pnh102
Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty
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join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD | I'm Lost... How does Google make the money needed to give out all this free stuff? Surely sponsored ads cannot be bringing in that much cash.
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join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA | Re: I'm Lost... I'm with pnh. Ads don't pull in that much money, they certainly won't pay for the kind of bandwidth suckage that would go on with an offsite file storage service.
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join:2006-01-17
Pickering, ON | Re: I'm Lost... Yes they do. | |
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imtim83
You All Deserve The Economic Meltdown
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join:2001-06-03
Kenner, LA
| said by LiamJunket  :If Google does this it would be used by many many people. But the usefulness is limited somewhat by the upload speeds available to most internet users. With those limits you can certainly upload some important files(there are security issues to be considered though). But if you are considering backing up whole drives worth of music, videos, etc, then the upload speed limits become an issue. Not for Verzion FIOS or OOL users! 
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join:2002-02-27
Abingdon, MD
1 edit | Re: Good idea, but upload speeds limit utility said by imtim83 :Not for Verzion FIOS or OOL users! While FIOS and OOL do have significantly faster upload speeds than the average HSI connection... 1-2 Mbps still ain't that great when someone is considering backing Gigs worth of information.
The math:
10GB = 85,899,345,920 bits @ 2Mbps = 12 Hours
That assuming a perfect 2Mbps sustain speed. If you're still getting the old 1Mbps with OOL, simply double that number. So, for music, videos, etc... even the relatively fast uploads of FIOS and OOL won't make this real attractive. I think I'd rather just buy a USB bus-powered hard drive and carry that around.
For more important things... that I would really want off-site... sure, bring it on.
Edit: Because I love numbers... here's an estimate for 10GB at some different speeds:
10GB @ 128k = 186 Hours
10GB @ 256k = 93 Hours
10GB @ 384k = 62 Hours
10GB @ 512k = 47 Hours
10GB @ 768k = 31 Hours
At that's all assuming utilizing a perfect 100% bandwidth with no overhead. | |
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imtim83
You All Deserve The Economic Meltdown
Premium
join:2001-06-03
Kenner, LA
| Re: Good idea, but upload speeds limit utility said by phantom6294 :said by imtim83 :Not for Verzion FIOS or OOL users! While FIOS and OOL do have significantly faster upload speeds than the average HSI connection... 1-2 Mbps still ain't that great when someone is considering backing Gigs worth of information. The math: 10GB = 85,899,345,920 bits @ 2Mbps = 12 Hours That assuming a perfect 2Mbps sustain speed. If you're still getting the old 1Mbps with OOL, simply double that number. So, for music, videos, etc... even the relatively fast uploads of FIOS and OOL won't make this real attractive. I think I'd rather just buy a USB bus-powered hard drive and carry that around. For more important things... that I would really want off-site... sure, bring it on. Verzion FIOS has 5 Mbps upload speed with their fastest tier and OOL has 100 Mbps upload speed with their fastest tier.
I know the Verzion FIOS tier with 5 Mbps upload speed is only $59.99
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join:2002-02-27
Abingdon, MD
| Re: Good idea, but upload speeds limit utility said by imtim83 :Verzion FIOS has 5 Mbps upload speed with their fastest tier and OOL has 100 Mbps upload speed with their fastest tier. I know the Verzion FIOS tier with 5 Mbps upload speed is only $59.99 Whoops, I did forget about the FIOS tier with 5Mbps upload. However, I was unaware OOL had a residential tier with 100Mbps upload. | |
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imtim83
You All Deserve The Economic Meltdown
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join:2001-06-03
Kenner, LA
| Re: Good idea, but upload speeds limit utility said by Chris 313 :said by phantom6294 :said by imtim83 :Verzion FIOS has 5 Mbps upload speed with their fastest tier and OOL has 100 Mbps upload speed with their fastest tier. I know the Verzion FIOS tier with 5 Mbps upload speed is only $59.99 Whoops, I did forget about the FIOS tier with 5Mbps upload. However, I was unaware OOL had a residential tier with 100Mbps upload. It is residential as far as I can remember but only the hard core people with money to burn could afford this as last I checked no price on this was announced. Then there is always the 50Mbps tier for both download and upload speeds!
Doesn't mean its to expensive if we never heard how much it cost yet.
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lupinia
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join:2004-08-24
Harrisonburg, VA | Re: Good idea, but upload speeds limit utility If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it  | |
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imtim83
You All Deserve The Economic Meltdown
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join:2001-06-03
Kenner, LA
1 edit | Re: Good idea, but upload speeds limit utility said by lupinia :If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it No. So untrue.
By the way 5 Mbps upload speed is more than enough anyway! | |
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imtim83
You All Deserve The Economic Meltdown
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join:2001-06-03
Kenner, LA
| Re: Good idea, but upload speeds limit utility said by Chris 313 :said by imtim83 :said by lupinia :If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it No. So untrue. By the way 5 Mbps upload speed is more than enough anyway! Oh? What would a 100/100 connection be like? Just think what could be done with 100Mbits of upload. That would be nice for everyone to have!
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lupinia
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join:2004-08-24
Harrisonburg, VA | It was a joke, hence the smiley after it. | |
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ossito16
join:2004-07-31
Whiting, IN
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| What's the big deal? This has been around b4. Remember I-drive and others like it from the good ol' warez dayz. Me personally I am beginning not to trust google. Yeah I love conspiracy but google going over the top with the ad-sense technology. Stop scanning stuff. My firefox scripts block more google scripts than akaimai or doubleclick combined, ok that's exaggeration, but google getting a little to big for me to like. | |
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SP_Writer
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join:2002-03-19
Clifton Park, NY | Re: What's the big deal? Remember X-Drive? I use to keep my Resume there. | |
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join:2004-07-31
Whiting, IN
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| Re: What's the big deal? said by Matt :/bquote]Don't do anything illegal and you won't have to worry about who is scanning what. How do you define illegal? Many times info is passed on by people who wish to remain anonymous. Clinton/Lewinski, Watergate, etc etc. Is that illegal? I would like to think that normal channels of law enforcement will snoop out illegal activities without the help of violating a persons privacy. If someone had an email where they mentioned a family member being sick google's ad-sense would root that out and probably send related advertising. Then you maybe put email address on health insurance form and they deny you insurance based on the content of some of that email. | |
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royalpalm
join:2000-12-01
usa | what about the other Gs I cant wait for the Gstring and the Gspot.....its gotta happen one of these days | |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
Premium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
| Re: what about the other Gs said by royalpalm :I cant wait for the Gstring and the Gspot.....its gotta happen one of these days gspot is already taken by a video identification product software.
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jap
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join:2003-08-10
038xx
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| put yourself in the shoes of average users... You guys are interpreting this within the context of geeky poweruser needs. Most people would jump on this as a place to mirror the most-used portions of their filing tree from their desktop: pics, email db, pointers to sites, passwords, etc.. Google will implement pointer execution on their end: fast for the user and as yet untapped treasure trove of enduser browsing data for Google.
The big question is will google allow self-encrypted storage and, if so, for how large a data chunk. They've little incentive to allow it, but disallowal will crimp adoption rates. | |
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Fatal Vector
join:2005-11-26 | Re: put yourself in the shoes of average users...
Will they "ALLOW" self encrypted storage? If they didn't, WHY would you use it? Store your passwords on google? I wish the clueless good luck with this. You wont find me using it any time soon. Suckers. | |
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Matt
Quitting Caffeine - Argh
Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
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| Re: put yourself in the shoes of average users... said by Fatal Vector :Will they "ALLOW" self encrypted storage? If they didn't, WHY would you use it? Store your passwords on google? I wish the clueless good luck with this. You wont find me using it any time soon. Suckers. Why would they not allow "SELF" encrypted storage?
I doubt very seriously they are going to say, "Hey, this file is encrypted, *BONK*, you can't upload this file".
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wololo
join:2004-02-09
uk
| Whatever Google comes up with MS Can do match it with their deep pockets anything from google ms can match or do better. But right now i give google the edge in terms of innovation, but watch your backs ms is not far behind!
Its a bit similar to my recent experience....
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ssj4android
Redefining Reality
join:2002-04-14
Wyoming, MI | Re: Whatever Google comes up with MS Can do match it Perhaps, but will Microsoft let me access the files from Linux? I think not. | |
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Matt
Quitting Caffeine - Argh
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
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| Re: Whatever Google comes up with MS Can do match it said by ssj4android :Perhaps, but will Microsoft let me access the files from Linux? I think not. Honestly, who cares? Only less than 1% of the computer market does.
Some Linux-uber-Geek will figure out a way, you'll just have to wait a year or two before they do. | |
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Fatal Vector
join:2005-11-26
| The allmighty GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGLE
Trying to be all things to everyone and bound to fail.
Who in their right mind would store their files on google where ANYONE could get at them, let alone letting google insert ads when you access your own files? It's rediculous. Especially with the size of hard drives today, never mind CD's.
If you have so much crap to store that you would need "infinite" storage (which you can bet you wont get free of charge), I would think that, with rare exception, it would be video and audio and a ripe target for the RIAA/MPAA to hit with a court order.
This idea is just crazy, but, I'm sure they'll find a few suckers, just like they allways do at the allmighty Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle. | |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
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join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ | Re: The allmighty GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGLE i have 7 400gb drives to back up. better start uploading. . . .
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DrugSkill
join:2005-11-14
Saint-Jean-Sur-Richelieu, QC
·Videotron
| Re: The allmighty GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGLE Backing up on a website storage drive what's the point?I don't know how people can trust that.I would never put sensitive data anywhere else than on my own storage material...on the contrary....I would put files on the G-Drive or whatever it's called for other users to access it easily and use MY drives as backup. | |
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