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What Is Google Drive?

Google Drive is a cloud-based storage platform that allows users and teams to store, access, and share files in one secure place. Flexible storage options with data loss prevention features are available. Using Google AI, this solution can identify important files, even before a user starts a search. Google Drive can recognize content, collaborators, and other file elements that may be relevant to each user. Additionally, teams can organize files in dedicated shared drives for easy and secure access.

Who Uses Google Drive?

Teams in various business settings.

Google Drive Software - Search on Google Drive
Google Drive Software - Access shared drives

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Reviews of Google Drive

Average score

Overall
4.8
Ease of Use
4.7
Customer Service
4.4
Features
4.6
Value for Money
4.7

Reviews by company size (employees)

  • <50
  • 51-200
  • 201-1,000
  • >1,001
Art
Art
Chief Technology Officer and Marketing Director in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Consumer Goods, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

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Google My Drive Makes Storage and File Sharing Easy For Corporations

5.0 2 months ago New

Comments: Excellent

Pros:

Easy to navigate and setup sharing between multiple partners in the business. Easy to create folders

Cons:

Uploading images a little bit slow, but it is usually due to my internet connection

Jakub
Tester & Product marketing in Czechia
Telecommunications, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

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Very useful backup and data storage manager

5.0 2 months ago New

Comments: I am very satissifed overall, because G Drive has everything I need including the access from whatever device I want.

Pros:

I really love the accessibility, that I can reach my files from the computer, mobile phone, my tablet... From whatever device I am logged in on my Google account, I can access my files. I can sort them by folders, files, date etc, files are also backed up across devices, storage data plan is also not so expensive for me. I also can color the folders which is the feature I am using a lot. It's better for me as I can easily find the right files and folders then.

Cons:

Google drive is great for me as a whole, so nothing is bad for me. Maybe that Docs and Sheets doesn't have all the features as other services, but it is not primarily the Drive's issue.

Leane
Procurement Manager in South Africa
Verified LinkedIn User
Marketing & Advertising, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: GetApp

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3.0 4 years ago

Comments: Overall it's still the best value for money and better than the others.

Pros:

Favourite features would probably be that it's easier to use than the other 2 popular offerings out there. Syncing is very easy on PC and mobile devices. I personally like the comfortable view setting that is available. Moving folders on the app is easy enough.

Cons:

Well like everything in life something's could be improved apon. The app could improve on the search function, detection of duplicate files. The filter function needs allot of work oh oh and the search function. And it would be great if more extensions worked with Google drive.

Abdullah
Doctor in Bangladesh
Health, Wellness & Fitness, Self Employed
Used the Software for: 2+ years
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Our Daily Global Companion

4.0 3 months ago

Pros:

Google drive is very import for our daily life in this mordern world,by the help of this software we can store our important documents in cloud,so that when we need them we can easily share them with out any hesitation, however we can also share our important documents in cloud as its security is high and its encryption technology.

Cons:

Documents sharing,uploading & downloading speed should be faster. Sometimes we can face adult contents in our shared folders which should me highly monitised more,sometimes we can also face some fraudectum activities, software should be more secure to deal with new morders threads.

Umar
Manager in United Arab Emirates
Computer Hardware, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
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Review of Google Drive

5.0 2 months ago New

Comments: As I Explained above, my overall experience with google drive is fantastic, it's very usefull tool for me & I Already recommended it to many of my friends, They are using it & Enjoying. Most of them are IOS users but they love Google drive due to it's features.

Pros:

Google drive is my best companion in the sense of carrying my data anywhere, logging in from any of my devices & start getting access to my data. All I need to do is "Sign in " with my Gmail account & My data is in front of me. It's such a usefull & Needfull Tool from Google.

Cons:

Yeah in start there were some complications for creating seperate folders to put my data into seperate folders invidually, May be I was wrong at that time I didn't have that much info about it like how to use it. But Yes, for now there is nothing Like that, I can use it very smoothly & Keep my data at it's cloud storage to use it on my all devices.