Use Google Drive? Upgrade to Google One — cheap

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If you have a paid Google Drive account, you may have been upgraded already. Google One plans will start at 100 GB for US$1.99, 200 GB for US$2.99, an
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Upgrade to Google One to get more out of Google
By Pavni Diwanji | August 15, 2018

Recently, we introduced Google One, a plan that gives you expanded storage and helps you get more out of Google. Over the past few months, people with Google Drive paid plans have been upgraded to Google One. And starting today, people in the U.S. can choose to upgrade to Google One.
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Google One is rolling out to more countries over the next few weeks.
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Google One plans will start at 100 GB for US$1.99, 200 GB for US$2.99, and 2 TB for US$9.99 per month, while pricing for plans larger than 2TB will remain the same. (Existing 1 TB Drive plans will be upgraded to 2 TB at no extra cost.)

Read more about it here:
https://www.blog.google/products/google-one/upgrade-google-one-get-more-out-google/
https://one.google.com/getupdates
https://www.blog.google/products/photos/upgrading-your-paid-storage-google-one/
https://one.google.com/about
https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/05/14/google-one-cloud-storage-announced-offers-twice-capacity-dropbox-pro-10-month/

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...and helps you get more out of Google

But best of all, allows Google to get more out of you.

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with Windows 10 running in a remote session on my file server

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MrJimPhelps wrote:

But best of all, allows Google to get more out of you.

Plenty of ways around that though, for those who are paranoid enough.
-Password encrypted archive formats
-TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt encrypted drives

You put either of those in any online file storage provider, they won’t be able to see anything.

Google has made my digital life better, so (as a free account holder), I’m a bit more lenient on them with the files that they have access to, than I am with other providers. If I were to go the paid route, I would stick with Google, as their accounts – for the price – can’t be beat, compared to the alternatives.

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Now that you mention it, I think you’re right about Google drive being safe if you use third-party encryption.

Google has really cool stuff, and most of it is free. That’s why literally everyone uses their products. That’s what allows Google to collect so much personal data on everyone. And that’s why Google is one of the wealthiest companies in the world.

I sometimes use Google Maps. There’s simply nothing like it anywhere.

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Or upgrade to OwnCloud…and host/control your own Data! No need to pay Google or Microsoft, since it’s free!

OwnCloud FAQ

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I wonder how they pay for the service, if they don’t charge you, and if you are totally in control of the data?

A lot of online backup services (similar in many ways to cloud services) have come and gone – they give you everything free, then they go out of business.

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“Google One”?

I sometimes think that Google has just flopped in the creativity department regarding names for their products. “Gmail” and “Google Chrome” were relics of the past… now it’s “Google Play Music” (clumsy name), “Google Keep”, “Google Docs”, “Google <generic name here>”.

On a more on-topic note, I’m still a bit puzzled as to what “Google One” is exactly supposed to entail. What exactly are they trying to do here?

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https://owncloud.org/download/

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Owncloud /Nextcloud are horrible sync clients because every versions of every file store as new file.

They are very good for other purposes, but not for replacing cloud syncing clients.

So if you with Owncloud change MP3 metadata tag on 20MB song – now you have new version and 40MB used on disk … Also delta sync is missing so all data need to be uploaded

From selfohosted solutions for file is is best Seafile ( https://www.seafile.com/en/home/ )

Seafile store data in deduplicated and optional encrypted form – like Dropbox. And becsause it is not written in PHP like Owncloud, performance is much better.

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