Google’s New Cloud Storage – Google Drive

A few weeks before, Google starts providing it’s cloud storage service in the name of ‘Google Drive’. In fact, Google is providing the cloud storage for us since long ago, even before the word ‘cloud’ comes to fame. Google’s online document editor Google Docs has 1 GB of cloud storage, Picassa – the Google’s online image storing and editing service gives another 1 GB of storage for saving your photos on the cloud & some other services like blogspot & plus has unlimited storage. In the stream Google includes 5 GB of storage for every user in it’s new storage service called ‘Google Drive’. Google Drive is a online (cloud) storage space in which a Google user may store up to 5 GB of data for free, and you can buy more storage space if you need. Primarily Google Drive replaces the storage space of Google Docs’ 1 GB, while the Gmail storage space increased from 7 GB to 10 GB few weeks ago. The main feature of Drive is Synchronizing across computers, the data in your Google Drive is automatically synced to your computing devices’ Google Drive folder. (Desktop, Notebooks, Smartphones) provided the required Google Drive software installed on those devices. Drive supports more than 30 file types with the capability of editing through online, that includes Adobe’s Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. As Google Docs replaced by Google Drive, Drive holds all the features of Docs like online collaboration, sharing documents, etc,. Google Drive is far better in many ways when compared to Apple’s iCloud, DropBox, SkyDrive. Especially if you are using Google’s other services like Plus, Gmail, etc,. Single file size limit for Google Drive is 10 GB while iCloud and DropBox are in MBs. For your information, Microsoft’s SkyDrive provides 7 GB of free storage with single file size limit of 2 GB. Currently I have few hundred MBs of files in my Google Drive and it is always synced to my Desktop and my Ultrabook. Based on my few weeks experience, I hope Google Drive will fulfill your anticipation.