Google considers the future to be online and its coming Chrome OS will rely completely on applications only available on the Internet and be nothing more than a software shell. The search engine has taken another step into the cloud by allowing online storage in Google Docs. It doesn’t stop there though, all Google Docs users gets 1GB storage for free.
Cloud computing, which is the name of the concept, is the future according to Google, and others. The Internet is the key and we all fetch and store information in the “cloud” instead of locally on the harddrive. Users will be able to upload single files up to 250MB to Google docs and use a verity of formats to do so.
This makes it easy to backup more of your key files online, from large graphics and raw photos to unedited home videos taken on your smartphone. You might even be able to replace the USB drive you reserved for those files that are too big to send over email.
If you need more storage you can buy additional space for 0.25 USD per gigabyte and year. Modern harddrives costs 01.0 USD per gigabyte at best, but today the need for online storage isn’t that great so the price difference will perhaps kill the deal for many, especially since Google offers the first gigabyte for free.
Google draws the line at at least 20GB extra though and the users with really high demands can buy up to 16TB online storage, but that will cost you $4,096 a year.
