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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Google Drive The Review
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Security for your files
Google Great for the Price
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.
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Popular Features
- Document collaboration (204)9.393%
- Reliability (201)9.292%
- Access control (202)9.191%
- File search (206)9.090%
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- No setup fee
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- 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.
- 8.8Versioning(183) Ratings
Users can access the most up-to-date version of a document, track changes, and revert to older versions if needed.
- 8.2Video files(176) Ratings
Supports video file types
- 8.5Audio files(170) Ratings
Supports audio file types, such as .mp3, .mp4, and .wav
- 9.3Document collaboration(204) Ratings
Users can edit files and attach comments to files.
- 9.1Access control(202) Ratings
Users can control access to (shared) files, including different levels of access such as view-only or permission to edit.
- 9File search(206) Ratings
A search function that allows users to easily find files, and in some cases even search within multiple files.
- 9.2Device sync(193) 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
- 8.5User and role management(190) Ratings
Administrators can manage users and user groups by role, in terms of setting permissions for things like file access, sharing, and editing permissions.
- 8.2File organization(200) 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.
- 8.8Performance(199) Ratings
Platform runs at a good speed on all browsers; files load and sync quickly.
- 9.2Reliability(201) 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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- Secure storage of files
- Collaboration and Sharing of file
- Permission restriction of files
- Organised structure
- Secure storage of files
- File can be access from any location
- Free storage space can be increased upto 25 GB
- Pricing can be reduced
- File recovery process can be improved
Google Drive use with external vendors
- Storage
- Notification
- Managing access
- Ease of use
- AI in suggesting how to sort materials inside the drive.
Google Drive The Review
- Easy to mount the drive.
- Easy to share files with other users.
- Easy to access from anywhere.
- File retrieval can sometimes feel sluggish if no local copy is cached even if the file is relatively small.
- Interactions with Windows directories containing a lot of thumbnails can lock up the system.
It wouldn't be a great storage option for performant applications if no local copy of the data exists, for example you wouldn't install an application to your drive but you would store documents, pictures etc.
I have more storage capacity as a premium member right now, and I am very satisfied with it.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
Security for your files
- Uploading files
- Integration with other Google apps
- Sharing files
- Large files uploading
- Editing the files
- Logging
Google Great for the Price
- Easy to use
- Accessable
- Free
- Save a doc
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.
Easy Collaboration, Backups and file sharing.
- File viewing, whether PDF, sound or video files
- Access control from view-only to edit rights
- Synchronisation with local folders
- More flexibility of choosing an account on which storage space is used.
- Access control could be more intuitive especially when adding new files to an already shared folder.
- Synchronising local folders was tricky to first set up
I use Google Drive for sending large files in a convenient way.
- Large capacity of storage
- Easy to use
- Convenient way of sending large files
- Additional free storage
Suitable for higher education file sharing need
- Sharing files with other users
- Editing files and working concurrently with other users
- Synchronizing saved files with other users (after you and other users figured out how to set up the drive in your computers)
- Free for the most part
- Formatting issues with documents created (or edited) with Google Workspace
- Setting up the Drive in your computer (for auto synchronize) is not exactly intuitive
- It is a virtual storage space. So I can access it anywhere and at any time.
- It has the capacity to store large data.
- It helps to share data with my people by a link only.
- Its criteria of collecting personal information for streamlining better user experience.
- It's good to have one account for using multiple products of Google but at the same time it's risky also. If I compromised that account, I'd be compromising my Google Drive data also.
- They should give more space. 15GB is too little when it is associated with a Gmail account also.
Google Drive: Will Drive your Life Easy. . .
- Data Collection from masses
- Analysis on the Data collected in terms of miniaturization based on inputs received.
- Ability to register unique response via Google Forms based on email IDs
- Security and Safty
- Integration with ios and Android
- If you are using forms than validation is limited to email id only . I recommend to implement username & Password too with prefixed database.
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- 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
- The way files are uploaded into folders is very organized.
- It is very easy to create an account and upload files.
- You do not need a trainer to learn how the system works. You just log and upload.
- The limitation of the overall size can be increased.
Google Drive, the essential cloud
- Synchronization
- speed
- plans
- Could improve speed
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.
The Best
- Access is very Dependable.
- Folder options are clear and straightforward.
- Google Drive App works well with my iPhone.
- Can not copy and paste Folders containing subfolders.
- Load times can be extensive.
Google Drive application takes you to another world of file management, ease, and access to your work from anywhere
- Link my important files to it by sending a copy of important mail and files to it.
- Connect to a mobile phone and store any important photos or files.
- Reduce the price to buy more space.
- I hope to add an internal file that we can work with with a password.
Google Drive(s) our institution
- Easy to use
- Great for collaboration
- Encrypted storage
- Accessible anywhere
- Improve ways to find documents shared with me
- Sometimes the search feature hangs or does not locate documents
- The ability to view the tree structure within folders
Love our 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.
- So far we have not found an issue we would like fixed or an idea to be implemented.
- 24 hour availability
- layout of information easy to navigate
- multiple collaborators
- UI friendly, simple and clean
- different plans of storage according to company/personal needs
- organizing collaborators can be cumbersome
- permissions and privacy managing
- limited file formats to check files in the cloud/explorer directly
- issues with multiple downloads
Google Drive.
- Storage.
- Quick Access.
- Access Anywhere.
- Easier User Interface.
- File Size Limits.
- Downloading and Uploading Speed.
Data available for your team everywhere, everytime!
- Near real time synchronization.
- Share files and drives with other people.
- Integration with Windows 10.
- Limit of file size you can upload in a day.
- Security Risks.
- File Size Limits.
- Sharing of any document with privilege
- Inline comment section
- Spreadsheet with multiple sheet
- We can set the priority on document
- As according to my use case it is fulfilling all my requirement so i don't have as such requirement which is not implemented here.