With Chrome OS announced and due at some point next year, you have to wonder where the often hinted at Gdrive is.
I have tried using several file sync tools but i’m not especially happy with any of them:
Live Mesh: 5 gigabytes of storage and winmo support is good, but no linux support, and has a habit of caneing my broadband connection
Live Sync: No cloud storage, but seems to handle syncing better than live mesh
Dropbox: Has file versioning, but no p2p syncing and only 2gb on free version
Awesome features that Google could bring to the table:
- Tons of free storage, do what Gmail did for webmail and blow other providers away
- Web storage exposed to OS through a network-share
- Have P2P support, allow certain folders in network share only P2P with no cloud storage (like Live Mesh)
- “Delta-Sync” i.e. only sync changes in the files and not transfer the whole file again
- File versioning, really great feature, wish Live Mesh had this
- Intelligent Integration with mobile/netbook OS’s like android and eventually Chrome OS, I.E. these generally tend to be highly storage restricted environments so I would definitely wouldn’t want to try and push all my videos to the device, however I would like to view what videos are on my gdrive and possibly stream them to the mobile device. Could also possibly have a “cache mode” on the mobile device where I can allow it to have certain amount of storage (say 100mb) so requested file could be pulled into the cache and then older/less used files deleted as cache is filled up. This would work really well for music as well
- Linux support, no brainer really with Chrome OS coming out
- WHS support, ok this is not going to happen, but let us have multiple Gdrive shares available on one machine at once and i’m sure something could be hacked together