Overview
What is Google Drive?
Google Drive is a cloud file storage, synchronization, and collaboration platform and service, that features Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides for document editing and presentation.
Google Great for the Price
Best Free Cloud Storage Drive
Easy Collaboration, Backups and file sharing.
I use Google Drive for sending large files in a convenient way.
Suitable for higher education file sharing need
User friendly and secured virtual space for all important data.
Google Drive: Will Drive your Life Easy. . .
Information is Powerful!
Google Drive is your best partner in uploading and sharing files.
Google Drive, the essential cloud
Excellent product with a great cost/benefits ratio.
The Best
Google Drive application takes you to another world of file management, ease, and access to your work from anywhere
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Popular Features
- Document collaboration (199)9.292%
- Reliability (196)9.191%
- Access control (197)8.989%
- File search (201)8.989%
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- No setup fee
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- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features
File Sharing & Management
Features that allow collaborators to view, work on, and organize files.
- 8.3Versioning(178) Ratings
Users can access the most up-to-date version of a document, track changes, and revert to older versions if needed.
- 8Video files(171) Ratings
Supports video file types
- 8.1Audio files(165) Ratings
Supports audio file types, such as .mp3, .mp4, and .wav
- 9.2Document collaboration(199) Ratings
Users can edit files and attach comments to files.
- 8.9Access control(197) Ratings
Users can control access to (shared) files, including different levels of access such as view-only or permission to edit.
- 8.9File search(201) Ratings
A search function that allows users to easily find files, and in some cases even search within multiple files.
- 9Device sync(188) Ratings
Device syncing that updates files connected to the cloud, keeping all files up to date regardless of where they are edited or viewed.
Cloud Storage Security & Administration
Features related to security and administration for cloud storage platforms
- 8.3User and role management(185) Ratings
Administrators can manage users and user groups by role, in terms of setting permissions for things like file access, sharing, and editing permissions.
- 7.9File organization(195) Ratings
The ability to choose where files will be stored, and manage individual users' storage; includes control over file organization structure.
- 8.7Device management(99) Ratings
Administrators can manage devices connected to the cloud storage platform, including restricting access for certain devices or wiping files from devices remotely.
Cloud Storage Platform
Features around the functionality of the cloud storage platform.
- 8.7Performance(194) Ratings
Platform runs at a good speed on all browsers; files load and sync quickly.
- 9.1Reliability(196) Ratings
Cloud storage platform is secure, all features are consistently available, and the platform maintains file integrity.
- 8.5Storage Reports(87) Ratings
Includes reporting capabilities to monitor user activity and storage levels.
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What is Google Drive?
Google Drive Features
File Sharing & Management Features
- Supported: Versioning
- Supported: Document files
- Supported: Image files
- Supported: Video files
- Supported: Audio files
- Supported: Document collaboration
- Supported: Shared folders
- Supported: Access control
- Supported: File search
- Supported: Device sync
- Supported: Web interface
- Supported: File change notifications
- Supported: Simultaneous editing
Cloud Storage Security & Administration Features
- Supported: Single sign-on
- Supported: Two-step verification
- Supported: User and role management
- Supported: Storage limit management
- Supported: File organization
Cloud Storage Platform Features
- Supported: Performance
- Supported: Reliability
- Supported: Multi-language
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Google Drive Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
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(1-25 of 202)Security for your files
- Uploading files
- Integration with other Google apps
- Sharing files
- Large files uploading
- Editing the files
- Logging
Google Great for the Price
- Easy to use
- Accessable
- Free
- Save a doc
Best Free Cloud Storage Drive
- Backup data from desktop
- Share data via links
- Easy to access on all devices
- Brows the backup like whatapp
- Except for file types on the backup
- Stop holding 5 $ when subscribing.
Easy Collaboration, Backups and file sharing.
- File viewing, whether PDF, sound or video files
- Access control from view-only to edit rights
- Synchronisation with local folders
- More flexibility of choosing an account on which storage space is used.
- Access control could be more intuitive especially when adding new files to an already shared folder.
- Synchronising local folders was tricky to first set up
I use Google Drive for sending large files in a convenient way.
- Large capacity of storage
- Easy to use
- Convenient way of sending large files
- Additional free storage
Suitable for higher education file sharing need
- Sharing files with other users
- Editing files and working concurrently with other users
- Synchronizing saved files with other users (after you and other users figured out how to set up the drive in your computers)
- Free for the most part
- Formatting issues with documents created (or edited) with Google Workspace
- Setting up the Drive in your computer (for auto synchronize) is not exactly intuitive
- It is a virtual storage space. So I can access it anywhere and at any time.
- It has the capacity to store large data.
- It helps to share data with my people by a link only.
- Its criteria of collecting personal information for streamlining better user experience.
- It's good to have one account for using multiple products of Google but at the same time it's risky also. If I compromised that account, I'd be compromising my Google Drive data also.
- They should give more space. 15GB is too little when it is associated with a Gmail account also.
Google Drive: Will Drive your Life Easy. . .
- Data Collection from masses
- Analysis on the Data collected in terms of miniaturization based on inputs received.
- Ability to register unique response via Google Forms based on email IDs
- Security and Safty
- Integration with ios and Android
- If you are using forms than validation is limited to email id only . I recommend to implement username & Password too with prefixed database.
Information is Powerful!
- Ease of use
- Appealing interface
- Possibilities are endless for remote workers
- Can be easily accessed
- Since it's working like a regular folder in a desktop, hitting back button that allows to go back to the previous folder would be best
- Best to have some pop-ups to provide suggestions like, if I am to have multiple folders, I can put numbers in front for it to be sorted based on how I often use it
- I guess more storage since this is needed specially if you are dealing with data or documents
- The way files are uploaded into folders is very organized.
- It is very easy to create an account and upload files.
- You do not need a trainer to learn how the system works. You just log and upload.
- The limitation of the overall size can be increased.
Google Drive, the essential cloud
- Synchronization
- speed
- plans
- Could improve speed
Excellent product with a great cost/benefits ratio.
- Sharing documents, video, files, etc.
- Create froms to performs some surveys.
- Access to a whole world class of product and services.
- Data collection.
- Graphical Interface, they should change a little bit.
- Copying forms between differents drives to an easiest deployment.
The Best
- Access is very Dependable.
- Folder options are clear and straightforward.
- Google Drive App works well with my iPhone.
- Can not copy and paste Folders containing subfolders.
- Load times can be extensive.
Google Drive application takes you to another world of file management, ease, and access to your work from anywhere
- Link my important files to it by sending a copy of important mail and files to it.
- Connect to a mobile phone and store any important photos or files.
- Reduce the price to buy more space.
- I hope to add an internal file that we can work with with a password.
Google Drive(s) our institution
- Easy to use
- Great for collaboration
- Encrypted storage
- Accessible anywhere
- Improve ways to find documents shared with me
- Sometimes the search feature hangs or does not locate documents
- The ability to view the tree structure within folders
Love our Google Drive
- File sharing both on local computers and from clients.
- Such easy access from the top tool bar on our Mac.
- I like the security of it.
- Google Drive fits nicely into our Google suite of services.
- So far we have not found an issue we would like fixed or an idea to be implemented.
- 24 hour availability
- layout of information easy to navigate
- multiple collaborators
- UI friendly, simple and clean
- different plans of storage according to company/personal needs
- organizing collaborators can be cumbersome
- permissions and privacy managing
- limited file formats to check files in the cloud/explorer directly
- issues with multiple downloads
Google Drive.
- Storage.
- Quick Access.
- Access Anywhere.
- Easier User Interface.
- File Size Limits.
- Downloading and Uploading Speed.
Data available for your team everywhere, everytime!
- Near real time synchronization.
- Share files and drives with other people.
- Integration with Windows 10.
- Limit of file size you can upload in a day.
- Security Risks.
- File Size Limits.
- Sharing of any document with privilege
- Inline comment section
- Spreadsheet with multiple sheet
- We can set the priority on document
- As according to my use case it is fulfilling all my requirement so i don't have as such requirement which is not implemented here.
- Collaborative work
- Seo online writing
- Collaborative reports
- Follow-up of copies and ads arts.
- Delete recent documents
- Improve the desktop
- More options for folder design and configuration
- User interface
One of the best drive with amazing cloud storage
- Free storage of 15 GB
- Easily accessibility via gmail and Google Drive app in android mobiles
- Very user friendly interface
- Files can be shared very easily
- Free storage can be provided more in today's market competition
- Even if I use some best possible search words, sometimes its quite difficult to find the files
- User interface can be made more attractive
- Great Free Space of about 15GB
- Easy user interface
- Easily Accessible in form of a G Drive Mobile App in Android phones and in Gmail
- Excellent for Google Forms as output and the forms are stored in G drive by default.
- Negligible downtime. Always up and running.
- More free space can be provided in view of market competition.
- GDrive can come in more attractive user interface.
- Gdrive needs to be marketed more aggressively for user awareness.
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- The new Drive for desktop application, which recently replaced Google Backup and Sync, works better than Google Backup and sync.
- I can easily search for files in Google Drive.
- I can preview certain types of files right within Google drive without having to open a different application or download the file.
- The drag and drop user interface makes file organization very easy.
- You can upload multiple files and folders to google drive all at once and see the upload progress/status for each individual upload in the que.
- While I do like the new Drive for desktop sync app over the previous Google backup and sync program, it still is very limited in the choices you have for syncing your files. You either have to stream all files or mirror or files and neither of these options is the best fit for me. I liked that with Google Backup and sync. you could select which folders to sync, so I would like it if some of that flexibility was brought back into Drive for Desktop.
- Google Drive keeps changing the app and method for locally syncing files. In the pasy four years, I hae had to learn three syncing apps for this at work.
- Previously when browsing google drive, I could select to open a file or a folder location in a new tab. In recent years that functionality has been removed and I miss it. It is still available in other Google apps like Gmail, but for some reason, it's no longer available in Google Drive.
My two cents on Google Drive
- Share files easily and conveniently
- Ability to share files instantly
- Updated in real-time
- Very easy for beginners
- Cannot be accessed offline
- Could be more user-friendly
- Should support more file types like TIFF, PSD etc.