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Re:Save more with Google Drive by abalone on Thursday March 13, 2014 @03:19PM (#7394201)
It is a bit scaremongery because if you're using it for backup you can just switch to another service if they announce its pending retirement. It's an inconvenience for sure, but not truly a significant reason to not go with Google.

Besides, who knows where Dropbox or anyone else will be in 5 years. In 5 years they'll need to be turning a profit which could have a major impact on product and pricing, especially for the "backup" use case.

Incidentally if backup is what you want, check out an optimized service like Backblaze.. $5/month unlimited storage.

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Re:Save more with Google Drive by mb_72 on Thursday March 13, 2014 @03:38PM (#7394327)
Not to mention 'Drive' / file storage is a much more fundamental and 'core' service than those Google has shut down.
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Re:Save more with Google Drive by Paul12345534 on Thursday March 13, 2014 @10:37PM (#7396652)
One reason I picked Crashplan (same price, $60 a year) over Backblaze (this might not apply to most people) is that Crashplan doesn't remove your deleted files if you use the option. That allowed me to backup several hundred DVDs of data to Crashplan simply by copying them to my hard drive, syncing them, then deleting them again.
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