Google Drive's lower prices - $10 for 1TB

WRXGuy1 said:
Google recently lowered their prices for cloud storage, from $5/mo to $2/mo for 100GB, and from $50/mo to $10/mo for 1TB. Not too expensive if you're looking for a place to keep a redundant copy of your data.

https://www.google.com/settings/storage?hl=en_US
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Nice, we use this for several of our clients. We're also able to remotely manage them from our managed services control panel without accessing their machine (makes life easier)
 
I would be glad to pay $10/mo for a cloud backup of all my data, but the real killer is everything has to be in the Google Drive folder, so you'd have to either upload everything manually from the website, or have a mirror copy of all your data in the Google Drive folder..
 
If google drops their price I am sure everyone else will follow suite and lower their prices to be competitive, though I will give google props for being the first to lower the rates.
 
Now if they came out with a Linux client I can place on my server we'd be good :D. I am kind of surprised since they have Android versions but no native Linux client..

Seems to be one area Dropbox has on them.
 
beers said:
Now if they came out with a Linux client I can place on my server we'd be good :D. I am kind of surprised since they have Android versions but no native Linux client..

Seems to be one area Dropbox has on them.
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because Android is not true Linux, however there Chrome OS is true Linux and it has google drive support. Their was a petition to google to have them build a native google drive client for Linux but those things usually don't work out. Have you tried to run google drive in wine? Lately I have been having great luck with Wine which is nice.
 
DMGrier said:
because Android is not true Linux, however there Chrome OS is true Linux and it has google drive support. Their was a petition to google to have them build a native google drive client for Linux but those things usually don't work out. Have you tried to run google drive in wine? Lately I have been having great luck with Wine which is nice.
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Was more looking for a native CLI client to run on a file server or a couple of VPS endpoints. The Dropbox one is pretty convenient as it's basically an rsync when you move files into the Dropbox folder.
 
WRXGuy1 said:
...everything has to be in the Google Drive folder, so you'd have to either upload everything manually from the website, or have a mirror copy of all your data in the Google Drive folder..
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What do you mean everything has to be in the Google Drive Folder?
 
Oh haha ok. I was thinking way too hard on that one. So it's like Dropbox, it makes a folder on your computer and only that gets synced to the cloud.
 
Magreenery said:
Oh haha ok. I was thinking way too hard on that one. So it's like Dropbox, it makes a folder on your computer and only that gets synced to the cloud.
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Yeah, when I'd much prefer to have it sync my other folders. No point in either moving all my files into a Google Drive folder, or having duplicate copies.
 
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