However, documents, spreadsheets and drawings that you create using Google Drive do not count towards the storage limit. I don't know if there's a limit there, but if you create documents in Google Docs, looks like the sky's the limit.
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| Google Storage on November 18, 2015 |
But Yahoo! has more. Yahoo! gives you 1 TB of free storage. Storage indeed must be cheap. Here's the storage I had on November 18, 2015.
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| Yahoo! Storage on November 18, 2015 |
My question is, who's going to trust Yahoo! to keep their 1 TB of data safe and secure. There's obviously no obligation from Yahoo!'s perspective to do this. In fact, the day that Yahoo! folds, you'll have to scramble to export your precious data off their servers, or lose it forever.
1 TB is a lot of data. It's huge! Unless you're working with media files, video and high resolution art. In which case, you need a different service.
The thing that worries me the most about most of these technology companies that offer this free stuff, is that we've all seen them come and go. AltaVista, one of the pioneers in search technology folded unceremoniously. They're gone and they're not coming back. Fortunately, they didn't have any data to store.
Google's a different story. They have all your email (if you use their service like I do). And now they have your documents, spreadsheets and drawings. And with the ease in which it takes to simply open up Google Docs and write, and write and write, you'll soon have a ton of documents, that you don't want to delete, just in case.
I'm a lazy blogger. I used to take too long to write and post since I was taught to be very disciplined in what I said. But that's because I come from the age when writing was considered an art.
Now everyone with a keyboard is writing. And thanks to Google, Yahoo!, WordPress and all the other free sites, we can get free storage to publish ourselves.
Ten years from now, we will look back and wonder how we will contain all these documents! We'll get to the point where all the information we've written about, thought about, contemplated, articulated, debated and argued will be a maze of unstructured noise. Not only will we not be able to find anything. But the stuff that's there will be much like that crackling, static noise you hear on a bad telephone connection.
Still, I will continue to blog, this time a bit more unstructured. Ten years from now, I'll read this and wonder what drug I was on that day.
Still, I will continue to blog, this time a bit more unstructured. Ten years from now, I'll read this and wonder what drug I was on that day.
