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.
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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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Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- 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 65)Security for your files
- Uploading files
- Integration with other Google apps
- Sharing files
- Large files uploading
- Editing the files
- Logging
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.
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
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.
Excellent tool for sharing information
- The application is very secure.
- It's easy to use and integrates well with other applications.
- Storage can be adjusted based on business size.
- Quality of usage depends on the internet speed.
- A gmail account is needed.
- Free version has limited space.
- Organization of files and folders
- Version management
- File sharing
- Support different file formats for preview.
- File uploading on mobile devices needs to be improved.
- Can add "Shared By Me" option same as "Shared with me" option.
Good Drive Review
- Docs stores
- Docs share to others
- webapp for desktop and mobile users
- Search from Creator, Name or other parameter
- untitles docs saving should be stopped,
- layout of drive should be improve and user friendly
- sharing the docs on drive with time limit or unlimited time options
offline scenarios is excellent for people are travelling and they may not find internet to use the drive.
Best Collaboration Tool, If Only I Could Use it for Everything!
- Ease of use
- Storage
- Sharing files
- The biggest problem that comes up is when sharing a file and you accidentally don't give the person access. It's easy to forget. I shared something yesterday and then closed my computer, not realizing I never gave anyone permission to view it. Maybe the UX could bring it to your attention rather than you have to search it out.
- Honestly, the rest is great. No notes.
Not great for heavily formatting documents. I use a technical writing software, Madcap Flare, to write my documents. I would love it if I could do the same writing in Google Drive. But alas, it's not built for that.
Great product for collaboration
- Collaboration
- Sharing
- Editing
- Feedback
- Could be easier to track when a document is shared, who it is shared with, and how to stop sharing.
- Could be easier to find large documents/save space.
- Automatic archiving and retention policies could be improved.
Best place to keep all your documents
- Collaboration with others is a breeze. We can share instantly both via links or Gmail [addresses] and thanks to Android everyone has a Google account now.
- Team members can upload documents to a specific Drive location
- You can create different levels of permission for different collaborators
- Right now it only creates one link for sharing. Separate links for view, download, and edit will be more convenient
- It doesn't offer the option to transfer the images to Google Photos which would be a great help for photo management
- The mobile version became useless as you need Sheets for viewing Excel, Docs for Word files. Google should at least provide a viewer in Drive. All cloud storage [has] one now.
Great for teams of nearly any size
- Syncs quickly so that remote teams can view the same document (and any new changes) automatically
- Provides a variety of documents to choose from for your specific needs
- Is easy to use and effective
- I’d like to see more of a customer support base. If you need help, you’re diverted to a message board full of other confused people and it can be hard to find an answer—especially if your question is very specific.
Google The Giant of The Giants
- Firstly, Cloud-based Storage facility.
- Integration with Single google account
- Integration with other cloud-based storage system like one note
- Facility of using even in off-line mode.
- Using other googles application like google docs, sheet, presentation
- The quite simple working graphical working environment which is not having plenty of menus.
- Its own file format.
- Having a little bit more control and clarity over what is shared and how it is shared would be a useful improvement.
- Could be more robust and flexible as far as assigning restrictions.
- Google Sheets could be enhanced because Excel really is not there yet as a product with equal capabilities as there are still quite a few limitations to the functionality.
Google Drive is great for online file sharing and organization
- organization
- ease of use
- availability
- multiplatform
- They removed the desktop app which I found useful
- Support for more file types
- download and upload of multiple files can be cumbersome
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.
- Internet connection required.
- Privacy precautions.
- Uploading and downloading large files often takes longer than normal.
Review of Google Drive
- Easily sync all your files.
- The free version includes 15GB of storage.
- Ability to share files with your team.
- Integration with other Google apps.
- Google should give some extra GB for free users.
- Needs high speed internet to upload files.
- Google Drive is a little expensive for most users.
Nice cloud drive and sharing platform
- Used by production department as a cloud drive to keep information about projects up to date and accessible while workers are deployed on site
- Accessible from a tablet so as workers in charge can have access to all the information they need on site visits without having to print it and without using any complicated intermediate software
- App
- Web
- Easy to use
- Reliable
- You need a Gmail account
- Free accounts are limited to 15 GB
- Doesn’t allow to edit documents in app
- No support for Apple pencil on iPad
Use Google Drive and save money
- For management purposes, we are using it to share and collect documents from different departments on a centralized drive which is associated with directors' mail ID.
- For students, we are using it to collect various feedbacks and documents when required. We are also sharing teaching material, notes, and model test papers using drives. For quizzes, we are using Google Forms which is again a part of Google Drive.
- So, in short, in this pandemic time, we are using it as an office tool, as well as a learning management system.
- First and foremost, you can use it to keep your documents online and download them when required.
- Second, you can share the documents and can work in the collaboration with other people in a shared file, so distance is no longer a thing to consider.
- You can collect reviews or feedback for any product or training in a very little time.
- You can conduct quizzes online.
- Reports are presented using spreadsheets as well as in the form of pie and bar charts.
- UI is a bit complicated to understand for beginners who are not from a technical background.
- Internet isa must, requires a little higher bandwidth.
- One more problem is in public folders anyone can edit and delete the files created by other users; I think that should be controlled. A person can edit only the files created by him/ her.
Google Drive is an Excellent Tool for Collaboration
- Great for sharing data
- Great for collaborating with a team
- None that I can think of
The best free way to collaborate!
- Ample free space (15 GB) and ability to expand.
- High and reliable security features you can trust.
- Availability of features to make day-to-day tasks easy and convenient.
- Supports various add-ons.
- Free service.
- Depends on internet even to activate off-line functions.
- Quality of functionalities heavily depend on internet.
- With frequent use you might feel that the free capacity 15 GB is not adequate.
Save, back up, access, edit, and share
- User community is impressively huge
- Easy to use for sharing files among group or outside via link
- Accessible on mobile, desktop, and web
Google Drive Review
- Collaborative platform
- Storage point for shared documents such as pdfs
- Access to other Google apps such as Google docs from within Google Drive
- Smooth link with gmail
- Offline Use- Google Drive's user experience would be much better if it was possible to have offline access to some of the functionalities.
- Range of editable items- It is not possible to edit some types of documents, such powerpoint in Google Drive. Adding such functionalities would make it serve our organisation better.
- Size. It would be great if the allowable space allowed per user on Google Drive was unlimited as opposed to the current 15 GB.
Easy to use for storage and collaboration
- Secure and easy to use
- Fast sync
- Collaborative work
- Free space of 15GB
- Strong community and customer support
- Low uploading speed
- Searching is little bit slow
- Time-based sharing can also be incorporated
A tool to govern over your necessities
Microsoft Office 360 comes with built-in Office packs including MS PowerPoint, Excel, Word, etc., but sometimes they have diverse problems. I use Google Drive in order to finish up my work and meet the expectations of my leads. It works like a great swiss army knife for any organization problems. Since the official KSquare University software is MS Office pack, we usually work with that. But, if your company needs to use different tools in a single place, Google Drive and the rest of Google's services are the way to go.
- Office tools handling in a single place.
- Org privacy.
- Easy to use built-in graphical user interface.
- Constant updates.
- Enhance Google Docs options.
- Different views of your documents.
- Total storage pie chart showing percentages of the number of documents in storage.
DO NOT choose this tool if your organization asks you NOT to use external tools aside from the provided by the company.
- Multi sync for many people at the same time.
- Free to use with up to 15GB.
- Fast and convenient.
- Update in real time.
- Should have warning whenever there is more than one person using a file at the same time.
Google Drive is very good ROI!
- Inexpensive
- User friendly
- Accessible
- More storage
- Password protected files