GOOGLE DRIVE FOR MAC REVIEW UPDATE

You can choose select files or folders to automatically sync with Drive, and now, all photos backed up through Drive for Desktop will automatically go into your Google Photos account. Google Drive allows you to have free storage, it has a great compatibility with every phone, tablet, computer, and any other device we tested, the refresh rate. Version 49 of Drive for Desktop supports up to four accounts, which you can jump between by clicking your profile picture in the Drive for Desktop app.īut Drive for Desktop also sees some improvements in its basic functionality (that is, backing up and syncing files). This is based on user satisfaction (93/100), press buzz (89/100). In past versions of Drive for Desktop, users had to manually log in and out of each account they wanted to access. Google Drive currently scores 93/100 (Top 3 in Cloud Storage) in the Cloud Storage category.

The most notable improvement may be multi-account support. Since Google One replaced Paid Google Drive Storage, if you need to expand on your Drive storage beyond the free 15GB, here's how the price breaks down with Google One: 100GB.

GOOGLE DRIVE FOR MAC REVIEW UPDATE

Google plans to merge these apps into a unified Drive for Desktop by the end of the year, and to kick things off, it’s rolling out a major update that greatly improves the desktop app’s usability and speed.

There’s the consumer-level Backup and Sync, and of course, the enterprise-grade Drive for Desktop (formerly Drive File Stream). With this one, you can purchase more space for an additional price, anywhere from 25 TB. The other option is called Premium, and its 124.99 /year with 1 TB of backup space. Its 89.99 /year, and you get 500 GB of backup space for one computer. For whatever reason, Google Drive has two different desktop apps. The Advanced package is the lowest tier that includes cloud storage.

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