The much-utilized search engine guru Google now offers Google online file storage, providing storage space on Google servers. You can store music, movies, photographs and ZIP archives. In addition, you can execute larger uploads.
Users of Google online file storage will face a limit on various documents. These include:
- 500 KB for MS word documents
- 10 MB for PDF’s and PowerPoint presentations.
- Up to 250 MB for files not convertible into Google document types. (This is notable, since it’s ten times again the size of attachments allowed in Gmail. The Google uploader will let you know how much storage space you have available, and you can also keep files from conversion to a Google format.)
Google allows third party programs access to files for read and write, which legitimizes Google as a provider of file storage. If you use the storage, you will need access to the premier edition of Google Apps, which will not help you if you’re a free user.
Free online file storage Google services aim to create a working link between computers, eliminating the need for many USB drives. The company plans on many other users upgrading their plans, so that they can store more non-Google documents within the document files in Google file storage.
You can buy additional space for your files if the maximums are not large enough for you or your company. If you use standard documents through Google now, you’ll pay an upgrade fee of 25 cents for each gigabyte, in each year. Enterprise users of Google Apps pay $3.50 for each gigabyte, per year. The reasons for the price difference include guaranteed uptime and enhanced customer support.
The changes that have been made at Google, to facilitate the file storage, make Google a valid competitor in the online file storage market. It’s actually not as different in most aspects as some experts thought it would be. People expected that Google file storage would tie in more closely with its properties, and offer something with more availability to average users.
Google’s Chrome OS was only being brought to netbooks in 2010, and it will have storage as part of its offerings. Cloud-based storage for files will also give you a place to discard existing files. Some of the unification work is still ongoing, since Google wants to join together the Google online file storage into one massive drive that can be shared with users of their other services.
In the present and immediate future, you’ll have a different type of bucket, along with its own accompanying limit. This is dependent on the types of media you are using, and how you are uploading. As the service becomes more widely-used, the service types should be able to communicate more effectively with each other. In this way, Google can group their search indices into a single place, allowing users to search content that is stored in any of Google’s properties.
There are so many people who routinely use Google for all manner of purposes, that it seems natural that they should have a well-utilized online file storage system.