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Google Revamps Docs to Store All Your Files

by Terrence O'Brien on January 13, 2010 at 01:20 PM

Google Wants You To Store All of Your Files With Google Docs
Google is about to unleash the long-rumored Gdrive cloud storage service upon the world -- except it won't be called Gdrive. Nope, Google will simply be integrating file storage into the existing Google Docs. Starting today, the search giant will slowly bring the feature to Google Docs users over the coming weeks. You'll be able to upload and store any file, regardless of type, online and access it from any computer as long as you have an Internet connection.

There are some limitations of course. Files must be under 250 megabytes in size, and you're limited to 1 gigabyte of free storage. If you wish to purchase more room for your pictures, movies, and music, you're more than welcome to do so at the shockingly low price of $0.25 per gigabyte, per year. Consider this: our beloved Dropbox charges $10 a month for 50 gigabytes. The same amount of storage from Google would cost $12.50 for the entire year. Only the under-appreciated SkyDrive from Microsoft (which offers 25 gigabytes of free storage) can compete with that value. This may hint at how file storage could be handled in the upcoming Chrome OS.

While Google Docs storage may lack offline access, automatic backup, and the fancy syncing features of other Web-based solutions, it does allow you to share files with others by taking advantage of Google Docs' shared folders feature. Other players in the Web-based file storage game should definitely be worried. [From: Official Google Docs Blog]

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