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The $50 for 1 TB at google is per month.
The best value seems to be 100 GB, since for the rest of them, doubling the space costs 1 cent more than the previous step (how odd).-Jibz (April 27, 2012, 10:34 AM)
Thank you. That bit of the maths that Josh through up was boggling my mind.-wraith808 (April 27, 2012, 10:40 AM)
The $50 for 1 TB at google is per month.
The best value seems to be 100 GB, since for the rest of them, doubling the space costs 1 cent more than the previous step (how odd).-Jibz (April 27, 2012, 10:34 AM)
Compared to the competition, it's a good deal.-Dirhael (April 27, 2012, 12:13 AM)
Actually, it's not. I have about 5TB stored on S3 and I pay about $25/mo...-wraith808 (April 27, 2012, 10:05 AM)
After over two months of rumors, Google has finally lifted the lid off of Google Drive. It's the company's entry into the cloud-based file storage service business that already has several competitors, including Microsoft's SkyDrive, Dropbox, Box and others.
In a post on Google's official blog, the company details what users can expect of Google Drive. First, the important stuff. You can use up to 5 GB of storage space on the service for free. However, much like Microsoft's just revamped SkyDrive, you can also purchase more storage space. Paying just $2.49 a month brings the storage limit to 25 GB.
You can also go up to 100 GB for $4.99 a month. If you want to go all out, you can even sign up for 1 TB of storage space. However, that will set you back $49.99 a month. Any time you buy extra space on Google Drive, your Gmail space will also increase to 25 GB.
Google Docs has been integrated into Google Drive, where users can collaborate on documents inside the cloud drive. Google states, "Once you choose to share content with others, you can add and reply to comments on anything (PDF, image, video file, etc.) and receive notifications when other people comment on shared items."
Google has also released a Google Drive app for Android-based smartphones and tablets and the company says it is working on an iOS app as well (sorry, no word on a Windows Phone app). Google Drive also has extensive search features and can even search for words inside a scanned image of a document, such as an old newspaper clipping. It adds:
"GDrive" is Google's version, to be announced any day now. I love all this storage; the more companies offering free products, the more users can be selective. Go * Microsoft.
* = away-zridling (April 23, 2012, 11:41 PM)
Everyone record this day. These are words that I NEVER thought I would see coming from Zaine's fingers!-Josh (April 24, 2012, 03:25 AM)
+1
No doubt!-Renegade (April 24, 2012, 05:37 PM)
I think you forgot to read the small print.
-Jibz (April 25, 2012, 12:30 AM)
"GDrive" is Google's version, to be announced any day now. I love all this storage; the more companies offering free products, the more users can be selective. Go Microsoft.-zridling (April 23, 2012, 11:41 PM)
Hiding in the Higgs data: hints of physics beyond the standard model
Looks like some seriously good science is going on here, demonstrated by the openness to revealing positive results as well as negative results.
It will be interesting to see whether a theoretical model - Standard ("Higgs") or Higgsless - might eventually be supported by the results of this research.-IainB (April 20, 2012, 04:25 PM)