Google Drive offering 5GB Free Storage unveiled

April 27th, 2012 by Sandy

Google Drive Free StorageGoogle drive cloud storage of Google is launched by Google. Free online storage market gets another participant. The drive claiming to offer 5GB of free storage space is sure to entice business users and individuals. When compared to its rival Skydrive from Microsoft, the free storage space is not much. Users can work with projects using Google docs with Google drive. The free 5GB storage space can be used for storing data, files, music, videos as well as valuable documents. It is one of the safest and effective ways to store your documents. Accessing and managing the documents becomes simple with Google Drive. The free space can be used to team up with others.

If you are not satisfied with free 5GB storage space, you can purchase 20GB to up to 1TB as per your requirements. Subscribers of Paid Google drive get Gmail upgrade to 25GB of storage automatically. This facility allows you to access files from any web browser. Currently, an Android app is available for accessing the drive. An iOS application is underway. Google drive lets you search documents including the text stored in scanned documents. For searching photos, an image recognition feature is made available. The drive is capable of working with other Google apps.