PCWorld Forums: Google Drive: The Pros And Cons - PCWorld Forums

Post your comments for Google Drive: The Pros and Cons here

Google. Dudes. Regarding your TOS. I know you spent a lot on those lawyers to write that 'thing'. But if you want the general public to get a warm-fuzzy about your service(s), you need to use some of those translators you're talking about and get the legalese translated into 'english'. Right now, your TOS may be perfectly legit, (or maybe not. I can't tell) and not as ominous as it sounds. Worded the way it is though, it sounds like some lawyer trying to screw us. As a small business owner and entrepreneur, I would NEVER upload IP of mine or my clients to Drive. I need reassurance that a) my IP will remain confidential and safe from prying eyes and not turn up in some patent of yours, or your buddy's, down the road. It needs to be at least as safe as I could expect it to be on my own equipment, if not more safe; the transmission of that data is encrypted to and from my equipment to yours and back.
Until your TOS is clarified, there is NO WAY any business (in their right mind) will, or should, use this 'service'.

So where is it?

aart12, on 25 April 2012 - 07:25 AM, said:

thats why i always use .TC truecrypt encrypted file containers for my sensitive IP. they can the .tc file but they won't get my contents of it.

some info in this article is misleading. the only shortcutted paths for files are "google docs", any other type of file is the real file actually being synced. If you copied a word doc or an mp3 into your google drive it's the physical file being synced to your machine not a shortcut to it.

Sharing PC- Is their away that I could safegaurd music files using drive to my gmail account? Should I just unsynch? I am using an older version of windows that won't allow me to create mutiple user accounts.

Now hopefully they hurry with the Linux app.

theseamonkey, on 25 April 2012 - 09:29 AM, said:

Nice I will start to use that if I want to store info on a 3rd party sever like Drive, Skydrive, Dropbox

DaneCollins, on 25 April 2012 - 02:40 PM, said:

For mousers. I see nothing about this that's better than ftp, and much that is worse. Wait, why must I mention mousers? The are GUI ftp apps -- but I never use them. Really, this Google drive is a a moron's version of the wheel, reinvented -- all ready for Google (or some hacker who finds the back door in the drive software) to steal your data.

Also a good benefit that people often forget when comparing to other competitors, The 5 free GB does not, I repeat, does not include google docs. But I agree you should incrypt your data before you upload it to google drive and not place important non-incrypted stuff in your drive.

Google should give us the garuntee they will not use our stuff.

We made the bold decision to jump into Google Drive and move all of our business Admin docs into the folder, we then shared this with the team. The problem now is that all the document that are being synced has eaten all of the free space we all had individually on our PC's.

I suppose we thought that we would be getting more on-line storage, and didn't pay enough attention to the syncing part of the concept.

Decision time now, do we go back to the centrally stored documents on our own server, or do we increase the hard drive space on all of the individual PC's??

Other than the storage issue, it does work well.

We also use Dropbox, which just has a better feel about it. We are a web design and inbound marketing company, all of the content that we share with clients goes via Dropbox, which also requires a lot of your hard drive space!! Again, it does do exactly what it says it does and does it well.

Bill.