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Can you upload it at usefully-high bandwidth?
Can you get that data back out when you want it?
CrashPlan, on the other hand, has a horrendous upload speed (a megabit per second or less at all times). The only reason I am using them at this point is because they don't delete your external drive data if you don't plug it back in. Backblaze removes your files after 30 days if the external drive isn't reconnected.
However, they are both backup services-- while you can access files from a web interface whenever you want, it's not the same as Dropbox or Google Drive. Plus, obviously, there's no syncing between computers.
So if you do a lot of google code, or google drive, or even gmail. Your screwed.
Sharing is clunkier, when you share a folder with somebody it doesn't appear in their drive. After they accept they still need to go into their options to get it to start syncing.
There are a lot of Apps that have Dropbox built in. They use Dropbox as their storage.
I feel Google isn't putting the effort into their Desktop client that Dropbox is. Google wants people to use the web. They are both cheap enough price isn't an option.
As for switching costs, its pretty easy right? Drag from one folder to another?
Delta sync is a real issue, but what do you mean their mobile app pushes you to Google+, havent seen that....
I find Dropbox websharing far easier, right-click share and it puts the link on the clipboard. Google drive makes you go through a dialog.
Google Drive doesn't have history for non google doc files. We use it as a simple version control for all our documents.
Just about every time I start a new project with an outside client, one of the first things they do is ask to set up a Dropbox share for the project. I've once had a person want to use Box, and never had anybody even mention Google Drive.
I'll have to stick with Dropbox so I can sync across Windows/OSX/Linux, my phone, etc. Besides I get faster upload speed on Dropbox, so I can sync all my holiday photos.
Support: If Google suspends/deletes your account, you're pretty much done. Their interactive support is below the level that other companies commonly provide.
Risk: Google raised prices 3X+ for Google App Engine on short notice. They could do the same for Google Drive.
Dropbox works flawlessly for me (including w/ Linux) and doesn't have the issues above. In this case, you do get what you pay for.
Primarily I don't like how google drive won't automatically upload your photos from a mobile device the way Dropbox does rather than insisting on uploading google plus.
Though the Google Docs API is awesome; apps like IFTT's "add row to Google Spreadsheet" might just eat the cloud DB space from below.
If you have 100G / 1T of stuff in Google Drive, you cannot copy them from one computer to another computer's google drive folder. You have to wait Google Drive for downloading all of them from the cloud... Insane...
In case other people try the various solutions proposed on blogs etc (including hex-hacking the Drive SQLLite files) I couldn't get anything to work. Might save you some wasted time.