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Google Drive

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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Video Reviews

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Google Drive Makes Collaboration Easier for New Users
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Google Drive: Flexible Cloud Storage Unlocks Collaboration
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Included Features Set Google Drive Apart
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Pricing

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Basic

$6.00

Cloud
per month

Business

$12.00

Cloud
per month

Enterprise

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Cloud
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://cloud.google.com/drive…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

Using the Google Drive Presentation App

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Features

File Sharing & Management

Features that allow collaborators to view, work on, and organize files.

8.5
Avg 8.4

Cloud Storage Security & Administration

Features related to security and administration for cloud storage platforms

8.3
Avg 8.7

Cloud Storage Platform

Features around the functionality of the cloud storage platform.

8.7
Avg 8.6
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Product Details

What is Google Drive?

Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service developed by Google. Launched on April 24, 2012, Google Drive allows users to store files on their servers, synchronize files across devices, and share files. In addition to a website, Google Drive offers apps with offline capabilities for Windows and macOS computers, and Android and iOS smartphones and tablets. Google Drive encompasses Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides, which are a part of an office suite that permits collaborative editing of documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, forms, and more. Files created and edited through the office suite are saved in 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

Google Drive Screenshots

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Google Drive Videos

The top things you need to know to get up and running on Google Drive. To learn more, check out → https://goo.gle/34qWMf7
To learn more about how Drive can help your team collaborate more effectively, take a look at our website. And when you're ready to get started, sign up for a free trial. Links: Website → https://goo.gle/drive-enterprise Start your trial now → https://goo.gle/37pwbjR
To learn more about how Drive can help your team collaborate more effectively, take a look at our website. And when you're ready to get started, sign up for a free trial. Links: Website → https://goo.gle/drive-enterprise Start your trial now → https://goo.gle/37pwbjR
To learn more about how Drive can help your team collaborate more effectively, take a look at our website. And when you're ready to get started, sign up for a free trial. Links: Website → https://goo.gle/drive-enterprise Start your trial now → https://goo.gle/37pwbjR
To learn more about how Drive can help your team collaborate more effectively, take a look at our website. And when you're ready to get started, sign up for a free trial. Links: Website → https://goo.gle/drive-enterprise Start your trial now → https://goo.gle/37pwbjR
To learn more about how Drive can help your team collaborate more effectively, take a look at our website. And when you're ready to get started, sign up for a free trial. Links: Website → https://goo.gle/drive-enterprise Start your trial now → https://goo.gle/37pwbjR

Google Drive Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Box, Dropbox, and Dropbox Business are common alternatives for Google Drive.

Reviewers rate Document collaboration and Reliability highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Google Drive are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Google Drive use with external vendors

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 09, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google Drive
4 years of experience
  • Storage
  • Notification
  • Managing access
  • Ease of use
Cons
  • AI in suggesting how to sort materials inside the drive.

Cost effective, easy to use, some limitations

Rating: 7 out of 10
September 17, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google Drive
9 years of experience
  • Collaboration/sharing
  • Folders/organization
  • Easy to create/generate new docs, etc.
  • All in one place
Cons
  • Better search; it's hard to find the docs I need when the search isn't very accurate or intuitive
  • Increased storage
  • Easier to copy docs and transfer them to other accounts

Most Reliable and Trustworthy to secure your data

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 02, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
Google Drive
2 years of experience
  • Sharing and saving personal data with high security and facing no downtime.
  • The regular backup feature always helped me not lose my sensitive data.
  • The offline feature is really good as I have to look at or read some of my PDFs or books without the internet.
  • Role-based sharing is really helpful as it restricts users.
Cons
  • May be the UI can be improved a bit, like it can be made simpler and easy to use, especially for a non-tech person.
  • I think as Google is a big company they should provide more free space. As we heavily depend on Google the data storage seems less to me.
  • There should be a proper spam detection. I have felt sometimes there spam detection seems broken.

Critical examination of Impact of Drive on Organizational Workflow

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 02, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Its integration with Google App Script, we are able to streamline the process of storing the files and generating reports by writing scripts
  • Integration with third party applications as slack, PowerBI, Grafana helps me a lot personally for monitoring purpose of our models
  • Version History also is great thing as we store training data we maintain versions also on Drive
  • Integration with google services as Colab, sheets, Cloud, AI Platform which makes it easy to work in one environment for training and deployment of my models
Cons
  • As we have lots of training data and files, we would love to see tagging and sorting of files based on keywords
  • As we have loads of data the processing is too slow for uploading, downloading and other sorts of processing so performance optimization is needed
  • Better file versioning and storing metadata about changes made
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