Should I store my files online in Google Drive or locally on my PC?

Should I store my files online in Google Drive or locally on my PC? #googledrive
Computer slowing down because you're almost at your hard drive storage limit? With cloud storage that scenario is almost nonexistent. The only question left is, should you store your business files via Google Drive for web or locally by installing the Google Drive Sync app on your PC? Get all the answers in this video and learn more on which option is best for you.
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[@FlippingAmerica]

Great information - REALLY annoying repetitive background music. After a few minutes it's just... jarring. Consider not using that track in the future please.

[@A_Soliman]

I didn’t notice it until I read your comment 😅, but it really is annoying.

[@chaugulepankaj]

Thanks for the video. I switched my data from evernote to google drive as evernote was being slow after their new updates. Now I can work with the notes, files in drive and google keep along with having access of all my photos in google photos in a single subscription.

[@itGenius_]

epic

[@dundundun4242]

I wouldn’t keep any files on a google service, or any big tech company for that matter. They can’t be trusted with privacy/security

[@UptonFamilyAdventures]

Excellent! This was great. We make videos of our family's world travels and we are constantly running out of space on our computers. Looks like this will do the trick!

[@itGenius_]

Sounds great!

[@TheFunkySpork]

I've used Google Drive for the past few years but have been increasingly concerned over the security of my data. Do you have any videos where you touch on taking extra measures to encrypt or keep our data within the drive safe? In other words, is it worth keeping the drive in a virtual machine or vpn?

[@itGenius_]

Yep search our channel for our other videos on Drive

[@robin9896]

look out for "Cryptomator"

[@kmdesign355]

But what about a 100Mb file and saved change to it that's only a few Kb? Does Google Drive / File Stream upload the entire file, or is is smart enough to do differential (delta) sync? If not, the whole idea of a "server in the cloud" is pointless for those who work on large files (eg. Photoshop, videos, etc.). Even with the file downloaded locally, at some point, one is uploading tons of unnecessary file data just to get a saved new version into the cloud.

[@user-blank-h6q]

Should I save my files on the desktop and then upload them to Google Drive, or should I create them directly on Google Drive and then access them from my desktop using sync?

[@itGenius_]

Covered in my latest stream

[@user-blank-h6q]

@@itGenius_ Ok I'll watch it for for sure. Thank you so much!

[@wanjiruwarama2016]

Thank you. I didn't know anything about Google Drive Streaming. I know they provide 15GB; I wonder how much they charge for the extra storage. I'll have to check.

[@itGenius_]

Great question, pop it into ask.itgenius.com and we may cover it in our next Q&A series ☺️

[@nuskokamozhno]

It is not unlimited but 1TB per user if there are less than 5 users on a business plan.

[@itGenius_]

Correct

[@sheerluckohms9961]

@@itGenius_ So if you have terabytes of data, do you have more than 5 people for your business? Is your business just youtube or do you have a filming business (or something)?

[@triliat]

very informative, thanks peter

[@itGenius_]

Glad it was helpful!

[@gs51018]

how would I get my files from the clouc if my pc is down. I know I can get them if their on my pc! Just take the hard drive out and connect it to another pc. Online files I don't think you can! You need internet access!

[@itGenius_]

offline mode in filestream

[@beardedghinzu]

NEVER save your files on GD - it randomly deletes files - i hoped to take all files on new laptop and then i found out that more than half of my files just dissapeared and dissapeared randomly - so i had part of files on and part of files missed... i'll never use clouds anymore - better i'll have couple of external harddrives

[@almagracebayong8563]

@itgenius what if I want to do the opposite, I'm trying to save thr files on my hard drive while being able to acces them through google drive stream. But I don't want the files to use up any of my Google Drive space, how can I do this?

[@itGenius_]

Save them outside of Google Drive

[@arturo5050]

You save my new lap top with 128gb to upgrade.

[@itGenius_]

nice

[@MeowPx]

should i have both google drive and google drive stream?

[@itGenius_]

If you wanted to... maybe check out our other Filestream videos

[@gabrielfono844]

Thanks very much Quick question?? Do they have any api that you can use to retrieve data from your Google drive and using in your application ??

[@itGenius_]

Yes, you can

[@gabrielfono844]

@@itGenius_ please is it anyway that you can link the documentation if you can please??

[@robin9896]

@itGenius - please make a video about "Cryptomator"

[@itGenius_]

Looks interesting!

[@Cartoonicus]

This is all fine and dandy, but I am working on a game in a program that needs constant access to my file source and if the internet is ever out, or there's a sudden power failure, that causes a disruption of the streaming, this can really mess up your day. Is there no way to choose certain folders in Google Drive to sync the old way? I tried turning on this "Available offline" option and now the chosen folder has no "synced" icon next to it, and I'm not seeing any extra folders popping up on my desktop and I'm terrified that it's just deleting everything in my folder on Google Drive, without me getting any kind of backup locally. Someone please clarify this for me ASAP.

[@itGenius_]

I'm going to respond with my thoughts in this week's Community Q&A :) Check it out on our channel when it goes live

[@sajannthomas582]

Hi, I have shared only one folder (a very important one) using google file stream. Now I want to delete few files from google file stream, while I want those files unaffected in the shared folder. My question is, if I delete one file from file stream, will it also delete the file in the folder of PC?

[@itGenius_]

Yes it will sync any changes

[@Shagunkh-v5n]

why Google drive is not accepting allowing adult nude videos storage as it is used to be earlier my gdfrnd ha plztellme

[@SUPERFANlyrics]

I save everything on a usb, Soo only thing that is on my pc are programs

[@RonHaddock1]

Just be aware that usb devices are not designed to last forever and when they fail, you lose all unless they are backed up somewhere.

[@jamesedwards3923]

Are you backing up the data on the USB? All storage media can and will eventually fail. Remember the 3 2 1 Backup Rule. Three copies of the file. Two different storage media. And at least one off site. If you are storging data on a USB flash. That means you probably have 1TB or less. Statistically speaking, you have less. Also tells me that you if you only use programs and not 'store' anything. It is probably work related stuff.

[@Arl662]

Would you recommend this to store my clients taxes? Instead of old school filing cabinets?

[@itGenius_]

Yes, definitely! Have a chat with our team so we can help you in setting it up www.itgenius.com/chat

[@cylynnhuyssen6414]

I am on gsuite, subscribed to a business plan, and have unlimited google storage. I am now backing up my photos/videos that are currently stored in my external hard drive and computer to my google photos. However, it stopped backing up and gave me a notice that "computer disk storage is almost full!" I don't understand why that is happening and how to fix it. I hope you can help. Also should I be backing up using google photos or good drive? What is the difference? Thank you in advance!

[@itGenius_]

You will need to clear some files from your local computer drive

[@thathappyrat]

I love the idea of utilising Google’s cloud ecosystem, and the Nest Mini is a beautiful device, but after what they did to the creator of Terraria, I just can’t trust them.

[@itGenius_]

that was resolved it sounds like...

[@artbarrett469]

Is google drive going out of business? no one seems to know..

[@itGenius_]

no

[@jamesedwards3923]

Not anytime soon. Hence why you follow the 3 2 1 Rule.

[@TitouanYT]

1:06 wtf are you saying we should do the complete opposite, cloud storage pollute immensly we should start deleting our email again when you don't use them and start deleting useless files on cloud.

[@itGenius_]

um no... emails are inconsequential to storage

[@thathappyrat]

Zero trees died for my Google doc.

[@jamesedwards3923]

@@thathappyrat LOL, you know how much environmental damage goes into computer technology? How about energy consumption?

[@thathappyrat]

@@jamesedwards3923 My point was merely that deletion of files on your cloud storage has no measurable impact on pollution of any kind.

[@jamesedwards3923]

@@thathappyrat LOL. I know just playing with the joke you made ;) !

[@gobblegobble8432]

Music is too distracting- couldn't watch the whole video. Sorry

[@itGenius_]

🥲

[@sanubala3382]

will google drive misuse my privacy

[@itGenius_]

no