Google Drive the documentation saviour
July 25, 2016
Google Drive the documentation saviour
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Google Drive
As students, we use google drive for most of our project needs, mostly for storing our project documentation as we can all simultaneously work on the same document. The drive is mostly free and simple to use, this is the most outstanding quality of the google drive. Also, the advantage of being able to save all types of formats such as doc, txt, csv, xml etc., on the same platform. The problem it addresses is that of sharing project documentations and relevant files within the project team.
- Multiple types of files on a single platform. As the google drive allows us to store almost all types of files without disrupting or corrupting the files, it is sensible to use google drive for anything that needs to be saved on the cloud and requires access by multiple people.
- Access permissions. The google drive allows users who create files or folders in the drive to give read or write permissions to the users that the creator shares it with. Prevents unnecessary changes by unauthorized users.
- Simultaneous editing. All the users who are allowed by the creator of the file or folder are allowed to edit the file simultaneously, it also indicates where each user is working avoiding any collisions while editing. This feature saves a lot of time.
- I personally feel that the google drive is mostly optimized from the users perspective. However if things are to be spotted out, I would say that there needs to be an improvement in the compatibility of Google Docs and Microsoft office documents.
- I would personally like to see more editing options in the docx files and pptx files of google drive.
- Whenever we upload an office file on google drive, 2 files are created on the drive. Though this is for the convenience of the user by creating two formats of files such as a doc file as doc and also docx, and both are updated simultaneously even when user updates only one file, it gets annoying after a point of time for basic/new users. Maybe an update should include automatic conversion of files to the respective format while downloading and uploading.
- As it was used by me as a student, i dont think i can judge it on the basis of ROI, but it definitely served my purpose to the end.
I feel that using google drive is much simpler compared to the Amazon Cloud Drive. Mastering the usage of the google drive will take much less effort and time as compared to that of Amazon cloud. Though I have never crossed the free storage limit, I know that Amazon charges more than Google for extra storage space.