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Originally Posted by sharphead
It'll be great until you realize what they won't store, and besides, everyone in the USA/Canada are capped on their upload bandwidth, why would they want to sit there and spend hours if not days uploading stuff to their gdrive.
Unless it's for small shit, this won't replace the hard drive.
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Depending on what you do it could be usable. Assuming they're using a bandwidth efficient delta algorithm the overhead of transmitting small changes becomes less significant. (Of course you need to get the entire file there to start with...)
I think instead of relying on (and trusting) a single company to store your data we'd all be better off with a distributed file system... something like torrents, but with random access available. The #1 problem I can see with a publically distributed file system is that you would need to store a given chunk of each file at multiple peers (to ensure that one or two people randomly dropping out don't suddenly render your file incomplete), which means that on average you would actually require more disk space to store the data of peers than your own. If everyone had 1GB of data on average then a redundant algorithm might consume 3 or 5GB of space in order to spread that 1GB out among peers. It's harder to reciprocate when you need to provide more resources than you would consume on your own.
