Box–storage versus drive

Google Drive is used for storing personal files. It is free up to 15 GB across all your different personal services (email, photo, and so on). It offers further data storage volume for a monthly fee (for instance $9.99/month for 1 TB). But, compared to Google Storage, there is no data compression or data encryption. It is not offered by Google as an enterprise platform with associated features, support, and reliability. There are no advanced management features, such as metadata, and no data organization management through buckets. There are also no advanced storage tiers (cold versus hot data).

The main features of the Google Drive service are as follows:

  • There is no data storage based on tiers
  • It is not a commercial ...

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