Comments on: Google testing GDrive (Codename Platypus)

By: More Proof of Google's GDrive Found - Storage Networking News Analysis - Byte and Switch

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:42:55 +0000

[...] Linux, Macintosh, and Windows. That screenshot was taken by blogger Corsin Camichel, who in 2006 stumbled across an early test version of GDrive, also referred to by its code name, “Platypus,” following Google’s [...]

By: marco

marco — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:35:45 +0000

very nice. Hopely it comes soon. About a year newspaper are writing about it.

By: brajt

brajt — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:46:33 +0000

Yeah, as if I could trust, that somebody won’t check my files.. No way.

By: mr.blogged

mr.blogged — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:32:49 +0000

GDrive is something very interesting i really cant wait until its published

By: Alexqyrg

Alexqyrg — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:18:41 +0000

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By: marco

marco — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:07:52 +0000

Google rules, thank you very much for your tips. Bye

By: siva

siva — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 01:16:49 +0000

Thank you very much

By: Nick.

Nick. — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:43:55 +0000

Thank you very very much! You made my life so much easier!

By: tiandrive

tiandrive — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:43:20 +0000

Very good news!

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:58:36 +0000

Why would this be different from xdrive or any other similar system? The only answer that makes sense and fits Google-think is searchability. What other advantages could there be?

By: Hans Klein

Hans Klein — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:45:37 +0000

Regarding Backup comment above "Your files will be on your new machine in minutes." Not true. I have about 60GB of data on my PC which is not unusual. The upload speed of my DSL is about 340kbps and download is about 1,400kbps. I have used both Connected and Carbonite I get about 2GB a day upload and 7-8GB restore in both cases. This "minutes" stuff is either Google marketing hype or some indication that there is no way I could store 60GB on Platypus in any event. There is no way to back up more than a couple GBs a day unless you have access to some kind of higher speed Internet link.

By: Dr4go5

Dr4go5 — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:57:46 +0000

I just tried it, and it is now http://www.writely.com/BasePage.aspx so .NET, interesting language choice for a google company…

By: Marcel

Marcel — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 22:20:32 +0000

Very nice!

By: Lieuwe

Lieuwe — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:13:17 +0000

Unfortunately, the images are lost. So I “tried” to add some images to the page, the Google style. Check it here: http://www.free-ftp.org/lieuwe/platypus/

Best viewed with Firefox (ofcourse)

By: WD Milner

WD Milner — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:25:38 +0000

Can’t wait to see what happens when the men in suits with the litte ident wallets descend to ave a rummage through the stored files. Then again there is always GNUPG.