Comments on: Use Your GMail Account as a Virtual Hard Drive

By: Michael Thomas

Michael Thomas — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:01:21 +0000

It seems there is now a Linux Drive for Google Docs available

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:11:13 +0000

@Toni Yeah, I mentioned Skydrive in a subsequent post. Not everyone wants to entrust their data to Microsoft. But, then again, we shouldn’t really be entrusting all our data to Google either…

By: Toni Danza

Toni Danza — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:13:16 +0000

^^ SkyDrive gives you 25GB now, and it has good security too

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:55:13 +0000

Has Microsoft gazumped Google in the online storage stakes. You can now get 5Gb of storage for free with MS SkyDrive. I still wouldn’t trust it with sensitive docs, but for backing up photos it could be a boon.

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:20:10 +0000

Wordpress.com users (which could be anyone even if you have your own hosting for your WP blog) now get 3 gigabytes of free upload space (as opposed to the 50Mb they had before). It shouldn’t be too hard to create a plugin for a WP account that would operate analogously to the GDrive applet, I’m sure. Any takers?

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:18:48 +0000

Dan, point taken. What I was getting at though, is would you entrust private data to a remote server that might at some point be hacked and its guts spilled. Just look at how much data the UK government is loosing these days. What I’d do is backup to an external hard drive (tapes even!) and lock them in a safe at a relative house, or somewhere similar. Of course, if it’s non-sensitive then GDrive would be fine, but I’d also use an additional virtual drive on a different server just in case too.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:16:05 +0000

Hell I would. Here I back up my families’ and my own data across all our machines in different locations (“lots of copies keeps stuff safe”), but really few people do that. Most have their data on one computer — vulnerable to fire, theft, accidental damage, simple mechanical failure, you name it.

By comparison a remote server adminstered by Google will have *lots* of back-up systems covering it. I’d say that’s a lot safer.

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:46:04 +0000

Wogan, yes, we’re basically heading towards the internet version of the old mainframe terminal-based systems of yesteryear. I’m not really sure I’d entrust all my docs and data to a remote server though. Would you?

By: Wogan May

Wogan May — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:48:01 +0000

I read the Mashable article. Yep – Google is moving towards the GDrive.

The project was codenamed “Platypus”. The idea is to create an online service that gives you several GB of storage. Then to give you a client that you can download to manage files on that account.

Add Picasa, Gmail, Google Docs, Orkut, and other services to that, and you basically have your entire life online.

Your computer becomes a local cache copy, and your Platypus/Google account – and all the documents, photos, emails and feeds it holds – becomes the Golden Master.

It’s the next step in the evolution of networked computing

~ Wogan

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By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:10:19 +0000

I’m up to 5263.332358 megabytes of space on GMail now? What about you? What’s your significant figure?