Re:Google is killing unlimited Drive storage for non-enterpr...
by rsync on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @05:00PM
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"If you have unlimited storage, the data hoarders will find out about it and abuse it."
This is an obvious result but I think what really precipitates this move is the creation, and maturation, of tools like 'rclone'[1] that dramatically simplify inter-cloud data transfer and treating disparate cloud platforms as "dumb storage".
It's one thing to have some weird utility that nobody knows about and only runs on linux and stores your data as blobs in gmail[2] ... it's another to have a mature tool with a decent userbase and development community that you can point to actual storage ...
A reminder - there's only one cloud storage platform that has 'rclone' built into the platform.[3]
This is an obvious result but I think what really precipitates this move is the creation, and maturation, of tools like 'rclone'[1] that dramatically simplify inter-cloud data transfer and treating disparate cloud platforms as "dumb storage".
It's one thing to have some weird utility that nobody knows about and only runs on linux and stores your data as blobs in gmail[2] ... it's another to have a mature tool with a decent userbase and development community that you can point to actual storage ...
A reminder - there's only one cloud storage platform that has 'rclone' built into the platform.[3]
[1] https://rclone.org/
[2] https://sr71.net/projects/gmailfs/
[3] ssh [email protected] rclone /local/file s3:bucket