[Snap] Google drive included SNAP $5 unlimited google?

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kyhwana2

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#101169 25-Apr-2012 17:40

Anyone know if google drive will be included in SNAPs $5 unlimited google/youtube thing?

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#615051 25-Apr-2012 17:45

it should be cos its part of google...........

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#615057 25-Apr-2012 17:53

Ohhhhh. That would make it an interesting proposition!

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#615058 25-Apr-2012 17:53

Potentially, I don't know how big the cache is at Snap though.
I doubt it will be big enough to house all that content.

Will have to find out how / where connections fetch to for the data.

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#615064 25-Apr-2012 18:09

freitasm: Ohhhhh. That would make it an interesting proposition!

Yep! Free backups, etc. Or.. if you can upload to google drive from say, a VPS, then grab it for free via SNAP, from google drive >.>

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#615155 25-Apr-2012 21:14

McGee: Potentially, I don't know how big the cache is at Snap though.?
I doubt it will be big enough to house all that content.?

Will have to find out how / where connections fetch to for the data.?

Google docs/drive/gmail doesn't come through a Google cache server, what your thinking about is a Google node server which at present doesn't existing NZ.

There are people in NZ at the moment spending a lot of time communicating with Google to get a Google Node server set up within NZ but Google have very tough restrictions on where, how a node server is housed.

And for everyone else, I currently use around 30GB of Google docs storage, all of which got re-uploaded a few months ago due to a server error, and Snap classed it as free Google traffic.

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#615170 25-Apr-2012 21:42

I thought that might be the case, I'm pretty sure the cache at Snap will only be 1-2TB at most as it's only meant to house primarily youtube and I believe maps etc.

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#615228 26-Apr-2012 00:29

McGee: I thought that might be the case, I'm pretty sure the cache at Snap will only be 1-2TB at most as it's only meant to house primarily youtube and I believe maps etc.

I'll need to do some reading to see whether providers are allowed to state specs of their caches. From what I've seen though they are MUCH larger than that, and are sized based on traffic levels.

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#615273 26-Apr-2012 08:45

Chances are that most providors have no idea what specs the servers are because as stated in another thread the cache is run by google so i doubt they know much.

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#615299 26-Apr-2012 09:43

frizianz: Chances are that most providors have no idea what specs the servers are because as stated in another thread the cache is run by google so i doubt they know much.

yeah you get a box with a google sticker on it, with a web interface to setup ip etc, the rest is a black box with little input from the providers, it talks to google who wave the magic wand at it.

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#615300 26-Apr-2012 09:44

And the ISP has to provide guaranteed bandwidth within specifications Google sets.

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#615304 26-Apr-2012 09:59

Hi guys,

At this stage our all you can eat Google and YouTube add-on will not include Google Drive.

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#618123 1-May-2012 22:15

frizianz: Chances are that most providors have no idea what specs the servers are because as stated in another thread the cache is run by google so i doubt they know much.

They deliver boxes to wherever you're hosting the equipment, The specs are plastered all over the delivery note and the box, and of course you can take the hard drives out and see just how much capacity they have each, pop the lid and see what bits they have inside if you wish.

Then when you boot them and configure them for first time it configures the disks so it's no secret at all really :)

They aren't cheap boxes, they use a well known brand name and model which is towards the upper end of the product line.