Google finally enters the online storage arena with a free 1GB

People have been waiting for Google to enter the online storage market with its rumoured game-changing Gdrive, but instead it has decided to start small[...]People have been waiting for Google to enter the online storage market with its rumoured game-changing Gdrive, but instead it has decided to start small…. The Official Google Blog and the Official Google Docs Blog have announced 1GB of free online storage for files that you are not obliged to convert it into one of the not-quite-Office-compatible Google Docs formats (ie Google documents, spreadsheets, and presentations). This is a miserly amount of space — it’s what Gmail offered at launch, and pathetic compared to the 25GB that Microsoft has been offering with its Windows Live SkyDrive — but Google says “you can buy additional storage for $0.25 per GB per year”, or $3.50 per GB per year for premium users. Google’s offering lacks either the capacity or the features of the DropBox service, which provides 2GB of space plus synchronisation, and there are plenty of alternatives such as Mozy, Sugarsync and Wuala

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