Comparison: Google Drive vs. Dropbox, SkyDrive, Box & SugarSync

With the launch of Google Drive past the site data storage services grew further giving users yet another option. If you have not yet chosen a service in this publication will provide an overview of what each offers to decide based on your needs.


Obviously you can choose to use more than one service because there is no restriction or control. Let's see, then, for each service it offers:

Google Drive
5GB free
Junior plan: 25GB $ 2.49/month
Superior plan: 16TB $ 799.99/month

SkyDrive
7GB free
Junior plan: 20GB $ 10/year
Senior plan: 100GB $ 50/year

DropBox
2GB free
Junior plan: 50GB $ 9.99/month
Senior plan: 100GB $ 19.99/month

Box
free 5BG
Junior plan: 25GB $ 9.99/month
Senior up: 50GB $ 19.99/month

SugarSync
5GB free
Junior plan: 30GB $ 4.99/month
Senior plan: 100GB $ 14.99/month


Beyond up and down all services offer the same things: common file sharing, personal sharing roundtrips. Perhaps, you find the following tablet particularly useful:

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Google introduced the Google Drive with 5GB of free storage!

As we waited for a few days, Google announced today the competitive to the Dropbox service called Google Drive. Users of Google Drive will have 5GB free storage space for storing documents, videos, pictures and other files while Google Docs is integrated in the new service.


Users can upgrade to 25GB of space in the subscription price of $ 2.49/mina in 100GB at $ 4.99 / month or 1TB at $ 49.99 / month while this upgrade will increase capacity and in your Gmail at 25GB. To Google Drive is fully cooperating with Gmail and Google, offers powerful search tools and you can view over 30 file formats such as HD video, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.


Google Drive is now available for PC, Mac and Android and will soon be available and the application for iOS.

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Google Drive: Coming next week with free 5GB plan

Google Drive service, a cloud storage service of Google, seems closer than ever, at least as claimed by the website TheNextWeb.

According to sources, the service will be available from next week (probably Tuesday) and will offer 5GB free storage to all users (Windows, Mac, Android, iOS), naturally with a larger market opportunity.




Moreover, the function will look a lot like the Dropbox, that opens a window and supports over files with drag-and-drop, while not impossible to gradually add new functionality by partners Google.


We await with interest the developments, although at present we can see something different from existing services such as Dropbox and Box.net.

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Google Drive will be released the first week of April

The Cloud storage Service "Google Drive" concerns us a long time, but the wait seems to come to end.


Om Malik of GigaOm reports that the Google Drive will be available to the public the first week of April.


Specifically:
According to information from the big day will be within the first week of April 2012 ... Google will offer 1 Gb of storage free, and will charge for these. The market leader, its time for Dropbox offers 2 Gb free. Google's product will ship with a local client and web interface that resembles Google Docs. Moreover, Google has built an API for third party applications that can store data in Google drive. My sources are excited by what they saw.

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Here comes Google Drive!

A few days after reporting the WSJ about the upcoming launch of Google Drive, the site GeekWire posted a screenshot that reveals the emergence of cloud storage service, and as we followed the same design line as the other services of Google, while it has incorporated in the first options bar.


Also, we observe the command "Install Google Drive", so it is very likely that you will need to install an application (web, desktop, mobile) procedures for upload / download files, such as Dropbox.

At the moment, the rumors say that the service will provide free cloud storage space for all (private or professional), and premium packages will include a cost for extra space.



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Google Drive, the cloud storage service is coming soon

Since last September, Google planned to create its own cloud storage service, and now the WSJ reports that in the coming weeks will be ready the Google Drive.


According to the information, Google will offer cloud storage with lower prices than its competitors and iCloud Dropbox (the second charge and $ 10/50GB $ 20/100GB), while there is the possibility for free use by the display of advertisements.


The user can store documents, photos and videos, and will have the possibility of sharing dispatch download link, instead of sending files by email or otherwise. It will release Google Drive respective applications for mobile devices, so you can immediately send photos and videos in the cloud directly from your smartphone or tablet user.


It should be noted that Google already has services for the "upload" files, such as Picasa for photos / videos and Google Music for music files, and it will be interesting to see who designed such a move.

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