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Well, it's $15/user for unlimited storage. Google Apps is $5/user for 30GB for each user, and then you have to start buying additional storage with "licenses"[1] which brings the price a little closer to Dropbox if you have a lot of data. I only use a Google Apps account so I don't know how well the clients work with multiple accounts (private Gmail and Apps). Maybe Dropbox will handle it better?

Obviously, Google Apps gives you much more than just Google Drive so the comparison will greatly depend on what other services you need/use, what your employees and contractors already know, and whether you have Linux clients since Goolge Drive still doesn't support Linux.

[1] https://support.google.com/a/answer/1726914



> Google Apps is $5/user for 30GB for each user

I'd be willing to wager that someone at Google has figured out that 30GB/user covers > N% of users, where N ~ 80-90. This makes Drive more attractive than Dropbox for that N%.


I believe Google pools the storage. Office 365 does the same thing. My org manages many thousands of people each with 10GB of OneDrive space.

We allocate big users as much as 200GB of space without even looking at the allocation ,because most user needs are very light.


Google does not currently pool the storage, but will move to that model in coming quarters.


How do you know this. Have they announced pooled storage?


I think they have the capability already and offer it as a carrot if you're a O365 customer or serious prospect.


for unlimited storage

In the real world you have netowrk congestion and security costs that scall with "unlimited" in this context.

so its more about practical needs.




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