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I currently pay Google $5/year for 20GB. I use half of this. I'm supposed to be really excited about what a good deal it is that I can pay five times as much for five times as much storage that I'm not using...?

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You're right. Since you don't use that much storage, no one else could possibly find this price reduction useful.

My point is - they used to have excellent $/GB plans (grandfathered), then reduced the value, and now have improved the value back to roughly what it was before.

The 15GB tier is free. Since you're only using 10GB, they've effectively dropped you from $5/year to $0/year. Not sure why you're complaining.

If you don't use cloud storage then the product clearly isn't for you, but I'm paying (on the same $5/yr for 20GB plan as you) $0.02/GB every month and with the 1TB plan could be paying $0.01/GB. This is a fantastic deal you can't find anywhere else on the internet (except a couple options like amazon glacier and backblaze which don't let you access all of that data immediately)

Well, Google gives you 15GB for free, Seeing as you're only using 10GB, not sure why you're paying, especially as you seem to be quite price sensitive.

I assume they mean "half of the 20gb which was paid for", which would be 25gb of files stored.

I have a similar plan. I've filled up my gmail and picasa/G+ free storage, and am using ~6gb out of the 20 that I'm buying.

It's now $12 a year for 100 GB. I'm not gonna tell you to be excited about it, but it doesn't feel like a horrible price.

Not sure where you see $12/year for 100GB? My pricing page shows $1.99/mo for 100GB => $23.88/year. Are others seeing different pricing?

Dumb math mistake on my part (to be defensive, I didn't mechanically calculate it out, I 'thought the number').

fifty times as much storage.

Apologies for not being more specific in what I'm comparing. You're right that their TB plan is 50x my 20GB plan, but I was referring to their 100GB plan.

Current plan: 20GB for $5/year ($0.41/mo) => $0.25/GB/year New Plan 1: 100GB for $23.88/year => $0.24/GB/year New Plan 2: 1TB for $119.88/year => $0.12/GB/year

The 100GB plan is not a better deal for me, especially if I'm unlikely to fill the 100GB. The 1TB plan could be a better deal but only for someone using more than 500GB.

twice as much pay.

Not sure where you're getting that math. $5/year (current price) vs $1.99/mo for 100GB = $23.88/year, which is about 5x more than I pay now.

AH, apologies. Thought your current was $5 per MONTH, and were comparing to the TB plan.

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