Google Drive - the ultimate cloud storage for DSLR/SLR Raw Image storage
July 22, 2016

Google Drive - the ultimate cloud storage for DSLR/SLR Raw Image storage

Babin Saha | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Google Drive

I am using google drive as personal document repository. I use Google Drive for storing documents, images, and scanned documents.
  • I have a photography hobby and I use DSLR. Most of the time I take a photo in raw images, which are in the size of 12-20 MB for a single image. Previously I used to use a physical portable hard disk to back them up. But when I spoke with the Google drive support team, and learning that when uploading raw files, Google Drive doesn't change any file format, I started backing up my raw images in Google Drive.
  • Google Drive also provides a preview for different SLDR Raw photos.
  • Online Document/Excel editing is also awesome.
  • And last but not the least, is the mobile/desktop sync for Google Drive.
  • I sometimes use Microsoft's OneDrive. They have a nice feature, while we search, it searches document files as well as document content. Even if I upload a scanned image, OneDrive can search for content inside that (after certain time, I think they do some processing). If google drive can bring that feature, that would be great.
  • Positive Impact: I can share a higher size of zip/documents through Google Drive, which I am unable to send via email.
  • Negative Impact: There should be a yearly subscription price.
OneDrive changes a DSLR Raw image file, which Google Drive doesn't. Google Drive is much better when it comes to sharing documents with blocking the download/print compared to One Drive and Dropbox.
Pros:
1. During sharing document, download/print/copy can be blocked.
2. DLSR Raw images are not being changed upon storing

Cons:
1. Google Sheets needs a few improvements, like format tables with predefined format
2. Google Drive Sheet (mobile) needs some improvement

Google Drive Feature Ratings

Versioning
8
Video files
8
Audio files
8
Document collaboration
10
Access control
9
File search
7
Device sync
10
User and role management
7
File organization
10
Device management
9
Performance
10
Reliability
10
Storage Reports
8