Google Drive

Stronger than ever, and good value, too–but lags behind the best when it comes to sync speed

PRICE 15GB, free; 100GB, $2/mth; 1TB, $10/mth from google.com/drive Google Drive keeps getting better. The service that once struggled with a lack of key features and an ugly, unintuitive interface has improved dramatically in recent years, with a slicker, more informative desktop client, a better browser experience and stronger apps. Google has taken a leaf out of Dropbox’s book on the desktop. Syncing files has always been as easy as dragging them into the Google Drive folder set up on your desktop, and now status updates keep you abreast of every upload and download. The browser-based interface can look messy, particularly if you don’t tend to organise your documents in folders, but Google’s usual focus on search ensures that nothing is hard to find. Google’s document-preview features are excellent, too, with photo…

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