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Re:Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next... by web_chops on Monday April 16, 2012 @04:23PM (#3849221)
We worked on a startup product a few months which is currently shelved. It had a file system like interface and simplified moving files between dropbox, amazon S3, google docs and multiple accounts (any one with two dropbox accounts ?).

With all this google drive news, its pretty tempting to bring it back to life :)

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Re:Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next... by nikcub on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @03:33AM (#3851604)
This is what the future of online storage will be, but it won't be google/dropbox/amazon etc. but rather 'your wordprocessor'/'your email'/'your social network' etc.

adding a compatibility layer between storage networks is a temporary fix for when a standard is formed.

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Re:Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next... by K2h on Monday April 16, 2012 @05:20PM (#3849504)
why not put a raid file system between the free offerings.

you get a larger total size

faster transfers (ha, like my 6Mbit DSL cares =(

and.... redundancy, which solves the 'everyone scared of the cloud' problem.

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