Christian Zibreg from tgdaily’s latest article would have you believe that hard drives are an endangered species and that Google’s online storage offering that is expected to drop soon will manage to cast the death blow and manage to take down Windows and traditional operating systems at the same time.
Wow, that’s a tall order. Even if we remove the line about taking out operating systems, that is unless Google is secretly working with BIOS manufacturers to make sure they have 100% driver support for all network and wifi cards native to the BIOS so they can install their gOS on a blank computer, we use way too much data and need much faster access to it.
I have a gigabit network at home, and I would not consider storing all of my information on a network share. It eventually gets there, but while I am working on a photoshop file, video, music, etc…I am doing it on my local PC, then I archive it off the PC. This paradigm works great for online storage, but the idea that it could take over as your main storage medium is pretty far fetched for any technology that could work on the internet connections that connect probably 90% of the US.
I think a Google storage service with no limit on storage of file size will be cool, but it’s not going to take out hard drives or operating systems, nah.
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Google has a storage service?
and, Isn’t like everyones internet way too slow?
and, do we really want that? All our stuff on the internet. *brrr!*
and, if such a thing happens would you want to store it with google? Which will for sure include a clause in their TOS that they may browse your files for advertisement purposes. Like they do with gmail.
I would NEVER store my files on a storage service. No way!
I don’t know…I would definitely be skeptical about storing my files with someone else – especially if they were sensitive or very important. I don’t think it will ever happen either.
I don’t see how anyone would trust it.
Having my files stored in a shared network drive? Why would I do that? It is understandable that most of the information on the internet is not discrete anymore, but keeping private and personal files is still highly considered…private.