As Google continues to rule out its new technologies and updates of its products and services, Google Drive, among the most used products of the company — is set to change the name Google Drive to Google One.
Cloud technology has continuously shown tremendous growth, and the field is mainly dominated by Google, Microsoft and Amazon.
Google 1 is set to maintain services that Google Drive has initially been providing but having major upgrades following feedback from its users.
Google 1 comes with a family shared storage option allowing up to 5 users on the same cloud storage.
Each group or family can have privately secured space in this designated storage and all this comes under one bill which has not been the case in Google Drive.
The upgraded storage cloud also offers direct access to Google’s support team on products and services.
This comes at a time when the Google has identified that most of their cloud storage subscribers are the same customers for the other products and services they offer.
So with Google One you get one-tap access to experts for help with our consumer products and services.
Google One has reduced its paid storage plans and also provides more space for your Gmail, photos and videos in Google Photos and any other content you store on Google store.
The 15GB free package has been maintained and the new pricing from 100 GB to 2 Terabytes has been indicated in the table below.
| 15GB | Free |
| 100GB | $1.99 per month |
| 200GB
|
$2.99 per month
|
| 1TB
|
upgraded to 2TB at no extra cost. |
| 2TB and above | $9.99 per month (down from $19.99 per month) |
| Above 2TB | prices remain the same |
As shown in the able, Google One drive is set to omit the 1 Tera-Byte package and upgrade it to 2TB at no extra cost.
However, the price set among other competitors in cloud storage services that is Amazon, Dropbox and Microsoft have 1TB monthly plans in place; with Amazon offering it at $59.99 per year approximately $5 which is twice Google’s 2TB plan.
Other extra services include credits on Google Play or deals on select hotels found in Google Search.
Google drive subscribers will be switched over to Google One in the next few months starting with the US and Google One will be extended for the rest of the users across the world by the end of this year.
For Google Drive users, we should not be worried about our data and previous as nothing has been changed, it’s just the branding that changes and extra new features for you.
