Spaz The Great Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Google "G-Drive" Anyone hear of this yet? While it has it's benefits, they don't out-weigh the cons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mpilk901 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 (edited) Sounds cool, if it was succesful it would really help. My laptop has stopped working and there are a lot of files I need off of it! So this would appeal to me. EDIT: I have that mouse Edited January 27, 2009 by Mpilk901 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaz The Great Posted January 27, 2009 Author Share Posted January 27, 2009 Sounds cool, if it was succesful it would really help. My laptop has stopped working and there are a lot of files I need off of it! So this would appeal to me.EDIT: I have that mouse Well, it wouldn't help with those files considering how you can't access them. But it would, however, help prevent this issue in the future. However.... This means your files are no longer private..... I could see storing things that aren't that important and just clogging up your HDD.... But no personal files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrLlamaLlama Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 You can get something like that at the moment, it's plug-in that allows you to use gmail storage space for files and stuff. It's not supported by google, but they don't discourage it either. It won't catch on, I don't think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mpilk901 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Sounds cool, if it was succesful it would really help. My laptop has stopped working and there are a lot of files I need off of it! So this would appeal to me.EDIT: I have that mouse Well, it wouldn't help with those files considering how you can't access them. But it would, however, help prevent this issue in the future. However.... This means your files are no longer private..... I could see storing things that aren't that important and just clogging up your HDD.... But no personal files. Yeah I know it wouldn't help me now but basically I'm just saying that I'm too lazy to back-up everything all the time. Wouldn't we be able to choose which folders are stored onto the server? And couldn't this huge website with our files be password protected? If it was I would just put on work which I need to transfer to school and things which I may need to access on other computers e.g: music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaz The Great Posted January 27, 2009 Author Share Posted January 27, 2009 Don't put music unless you ripped them from CDs you bought. And even password protected, people can crack passwords. Furthermore, for us Americans, the American government can seize any information from these servers that they want to. And Google has to comply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franswurst Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 It sounds very interesting, but at the same time very scary I think it will cause a lot of problems with Hackers and stuff like that. I don't know I just can't see tat much good coming from it. I agree with Spaz, I don't think the positives can outweigh the negatives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaz The Great Posted January 28, 2009 Author Share Posted January 28, 2009 Furthermore, with the danger of YOUR system failing comes the danger of THEIR system failing. I mean, honestly, who's to say they can't have a huge server crash and then EVERYONE loses their shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 Doesn't interest me in the slightest. This just slows everything down. Plus I wanna keep private stuff private. Hard drives really aren't that expensive when you think about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockstarrem Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 I agree with Chris on the private stuff private, they're starting to scare me with offering to log all of the websites you go to and display them publicly in a toolbar. If it was completely hacker safe and some fat guy working at Google wasn't looking through my shit then I'd be thrilled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azn Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 This is shit. It's like using a public telephone except you're using a public machine that people can look over your shoulder at. Sometimes I rely on sites like Photobucket and such however my ENTIRE hard drive data on a Google server is like giving away part of my life to some people I don't even know or trust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRX22B1998 Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 hmmm no. lol. this seems like a OK idea...but theres no way I would do that. tell me, what happens when you got no internet (eg when it just doesnt want to work). your files are gone. you cant do anything. its a bit stupid. Does it matter that Google can be subpoenaed at any time to hand over all your data to the American government?" lol im screwed there is wayy too much illegal stuff on my computer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 You're not an American though. So unless you hosted your GDrive on one of their American servers you'd be fine. With a service like this, it would be so retarded to host in another country (for speed and bandwidth reasons) that they'd pretty much be forced to offer more local storage options. That said, most countries still have shit Internet, only certain European and Asian countries currently have the feasibility to use such a services. I have approximately 1.5TB of data on my hard drives, on my 8MB connection at home (1.3MB upload) which is the standard for the UK right now and actually above average since Cable isn't popular here, it would take me 15728640 seconds, or 4369 hours to upload it all. That's over 182 days. Over half a year. Shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TM™ Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 This idea just sounds retarded, who would want their private files to be on the internet? I'm not down with this idea. I prefer to keep my data stored in a perfect place where nobody can access them. Google obviously don't give a shit about those who don't want to keep their private files safe, so why bother with this idea especially when some people could be at potential risk. And yes, Hard drives are turning out to be cheap where I live, I might pick up another 500GB hard drive when my current hard drive gets full. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azn Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 It's just a badly planned idea, really. It's called a laptop that you take around, in other words literally taking your computer around. And privacy is a priority on EVERYONE'S computing list, so taking this is away is like pretty much telling people not to use this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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