14 DAY TRIAL // Google has a rather expensive data storage service and users need to pay a hefty sum for using more than the default plan that everyone could get. Now, the company is looking to make a real dent in the market by offering Chromebook users 1 TB of Drive storage.
There are a few data storage providers out there, but there is only a handful that fight for domination on the market. Sure enough, there are other smaller companies that have the same kind of products, and some are much better than Dropbox, Microsoft, or Google.
The one thing that all of these major services have in common are the prices for large storage needs and Google is looking to change this.
Google is building and shipping Chromebook, which are basically laptops running the Linux-based Chrome OS. They are having an immense success, so Google wants to take advantage of its position and to also provide 1 TB of free online storage space to everyone buying a Chromebook.
When did 1 TB become something normal to have?
Just a few years back users would look with envy at hard disks that were providing 1 TB of space, but in today's world we are able to get the same storage in the cloud.
Also, the size of the local HDDs have more than doubled. The quest for more space is never over and Google is trying to get ahead with a new enticing offer.
"Chromebooks make day-to-day computing fast, simple and secure, whether you’re searching for a great pumpkin pie recipe or sharing a family photo from Google Drive. And now, as a bonus for the holiday season, new Chromebook buyers can get 1TB of Google Drive storage for two years — almost $240 ($192) in value — absolutely free."
"That’s enough space to keep more than 100,000 awkward holiday sweater pics safe and shareable in Drive. With that much free storage, you can use your Chromebook for work, play and pretty much everything else you’ll do this holiday season," reads the official Google Driver blog.
Basically, all you have to do as a user is to buy the cheapest Chromebook you can find, at $199 (€160), and redeem the space on Google Driver by the end of January, 2015. It's very likely that other storage providers will also come with their own offers. Dropbox, for example, had a similar kind of deal with Samsung last year, but it was for half that space.
