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With Google One you’ll be able to share that storage plan with up to five family members. The rebranding also brings a handful of new features.

You’ll buy storage from Google One and manage it with a Google One app, the company confirmed to CNET. Previously, “Google Drive” was also the company’s name for the gigabytes of online storage you’d share between Drive, Gmail and Google Photos. Google One is the new way you’ll buy online storage from Google, taking over from the company’s previous Google Drive storage plans.ĭoes that mean Google Drive is going away? No - but the phrase “Google Drive” now only refers to the company’s Dropbox-like service where you can upload files to a personal online vault.

Google/Screenshot by Gordon Gottsegen/CNET Now, I just perceive this change as a very aggressive and hostile marketing move against a large loyal userbase - possibly motivated by an unjustified fear of losing some users at the 'Plus' subscription plan.Google One lets you store your data in the cloud. I think Dropbox marketing dropped the ball here in terms of underestimating how many loyal 'free users' were willing to jump onto a paid subscription service - had a more reasonable 'Basic' tier option been made available at the same time they implimented the change. I'm a free user with 15Gb, and currently using only using 5Gb.

I don't have the data to back it up, so I'm gonna go on a hunch here and say that many other 'Free tier users' did the same ( Dropbox can probably confirm this by checking the number of hits they had on their pricing plan website shortly after news of this change was leaked) - regardless, the pricing plans currently on offer are overkill for what 'free users' enjoyed the past many years.įor Australian users, the first available pricing option is the 'Plus Plan' at $15.39, billed annually, and comes with 2TB. When Dropbox implemented the max 3 linked accounts limit, my first reaction was to look at what paid subscription options were available.