So, I love Google Drive. It truly is real time. It took about a week for the first sync up of 418GB files and I had to uninstall the app on my iPhone and reinstall it, but not really a big deal at all.
BUT, the decision to cancel Mozy is killing me. I have been using Mozy for so long now. Even though it is going to save me $50 per month! I know, idiot.
I can go down to $10 per month with Mozy for only 125GB. But why would I do that when GD gives me 1TB for $10.?
I think I need to let go of the notion that backing up every night onto Mozy’s server and onto my external hard drive sitting on my desk is actually doing me any good better than GD.
Your thoughts my friends on this Independence Day?
Will you please just tell me to cancel Mozy and enjoy my savings?
Really, I just need to be told.
Brad
GD: $10/month 1TB (1000 GB)
Mozy: $50/month 525 GB
Google Drive rocks, cancel Mozy.
Give Carbonite a try. It is $50 or $60 a year and better than Mozy. I switched when Mozy raised their prices and haven't looked back.
Just be aware that not all cloud storage services are equal. For example, Carbonite (and maybe Mozy, I don't recall now) don't backup their data center drives. So if the drive in their data center that contains *your* data fails, Carbonite will attempt to restore it by connecting to your computer and uploading it. If your local drive happens to fail -- or you happen to erase an important file -- at the same time the Carbonite drive fails, bye-bye data.
I don't know if Google Drive is backed up at the data center. My guess is no, given the pricing.
Amazon S3 does backup their data center drives. There's no extra charge for in-center backups, but if you want your data backed up to a data center in another region (to protect against catastrophic failure at the data center, like an earthquake or flood) there's an additional charge.
Not sure about Rackspace, but my guess is yes.
research from a few years ago indicated that Google Drive was backed up multiple times.
DO IT.
Google recently announced Google Apps Unlimited, which is beyond amazing. Now you get all of the apps, email and Drive for $10/month per user. If you have less than 5 users on your account, each user gets 1TB of Drive space. If you have 5 or more users, everyone gets unlimited Drive space.
Plus now all Google Drive accounts are completely encrypted even while at rest on Google servers. The bold part is key because usually when you hear of encryption, it refers to the transfer back and forth -- in Google's case, your files are constantly encrypted.
I use Backblaze, unlimited data, $5 by the month OR $50 for the year per computer.
Just another option if you liked Mozy and cheaper than Google, of course it doesn't have all the other included Google tools.
SHG
I installed Google Drive on my home computer and also on my office computer. However, I am unable to make them use the same google drive. Each stores data on separate google drive accounts. I had almost 45-minute chat with support, and I got nowhere.
Is there a way to have two computers share the same google drive? How?
> I installed Google Drive on my home computer and also on my office computer. However, I am unable to make them use the same google drive. Each stores data on separate google drive accounts. I had almost 45-minute chat with support, and I got nowhere.
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> Is there a way to have two computers share the same google drive? How?
A good q for the google forums, I have found them to be helpful.
