Google Plans Service to Store Users' Data

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A new report says that Google plans on launching a remote storage service in a few months. Any of you interested in remote storage?

Users would be able to house files they would normally store on personal computers -- such as word-processing documents, digital music, video clips and images -- on Google's computers, the Journal said, citing sources familiar with the matter.
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I'm looking forward to seeing what Google does with this, but honestly, I'd rather just spend ~$10 / month for my own hosting plan that comes with 200-500GB+ of storage space. All of the online-storage/backup solutions seem to skyrocket prices after the initial free offering of 1-5GB.

As a gfx designer, I want a place I can dump/backup all of my design files and I'm nearing the 300GB mark with total backup requirements. For now, a hosting plan w/ secured directories is my solution.
 
I would be all over this as a 'safe' and remote location to store things like backups of music, pics, etc. But the fact that Google will have their little eyes all over everything I own really turns me off. Undecided.

On a different thought, what's to keep people from using this as a their own little darknet? I can just see people storing their MP3s here only to get sued by the RIAA (rightly or wrongly) after google coughs up information.
 
Baredor said:
what's to keep people from using this as a their own little darknet? I can just see people storing their MP3s here only to get sued by the RIAA (rightly or wrongly) after google coughs up information.
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As far as I know, some groups use gmail for this still (upload mp3s, share login/pass).
 
Why would anyone want to do this? Part of the deal is you will be signing away your privacy rights to Google. Hard drives are cheap and my data is much more secure in my hands than theirs. I know why don’t we just let Google have access to everything and rely on their goodwill to use it wisely. ;)
 
A few companies have offered this service in the past. It's a good service and a good idea, but the problem is peoples transfer rates are still crippled by the mediocore internet connections.
 
Luthorcrow said:
Why would anyone want to do this? Part of the deal is you will be signing away your privacy rights to Google. Hard drives are cheap and my data is much more secure in my hands than theirs. I know why don’t we just let Google have access to everything and rely on their goodwill to use it wisely. ;)
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there's two kinds of data needing backed up.....everyday data and personal or critical sensitive type data

this is obviously not the place for the latter, but for everyday storage i would use it if the price was right
 
you were always able to store files on Google servers using Gmail and Gspace, the Firefox plugin. Very convienent when I want to view files someplace else besides at work.
 
If it allowed me to stream my music....heh


but otherwise it feels useless when they already have Docs
 
I wouldn't personally use it but I believe Google is the future, anything to support them works for me.
 
It is a PITA to upload large amounts of data on most peoples connections, so IMO online backup is flawed for home users.

It takes FOREVER to send gbs of data across the net when my RAID server in my basement can backup my gbs of pictures in minutes.
 
Grentz said:
It is a PITA to upload large amounts of data on most peoples connections, so IMO online backup is flawed for home users.

It takes FOREVER to send gbs of data across the net when my RAID server in my basement can backup my gbs of pictures in minutes.
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An initial online backup would take a while, although a lot of service providers here in Southern California are giving 1Mbit+ in upstream bandwidth.

Even if it took a few days or a week for an initial backup to be done, then from that point you could do incremental backups.

It's just an option for an online backup solution. I'm still sticking with a hosting plan rather than a Google-service.
 
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