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Google's Cheap Cloud Storage: Worth the Price?
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For only $5 a year, Google will give you 20GB of storage -- twice as much as before for a quarter of the old price. This is enough to store "more than 10,000 full resolution pictures taken with a five megapixel camera," according to Google's blog. Not enough? Do you have 8 million photos to rocket into the cloud? Go for the jaw-dropping 16TB option for $4,096 annually. That's a lot of space.
So what can you do with 16TB of Google storage? Basically nothing. Right now Google will only keep e-mails and photos. This is nothing like the Google Drive rumor that's been floating around the blogosphere for ages. But some have posited that with the forthcoming release of Chrome OS, Google may be inspired to unveil Google Drive and make its cloud storage worthwhile.
For the time being it may be more frugal to stick with clunky external drives than trust the Google cloud -- especially after recent failures.
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