Google Drive increases its free cloud storage capacity
Now you can back up even more of your design work online as Google ramps up the cloud storage wars.
Google has announced that it is tripling its free cloud storage capacity from 5GB to 15GB across its three services Gmail, Google+ and Google Drive.
The news comes ahead of Google's I/O conference and means that Google has increased its armoury in the war for your online document storage. The company's official Google Drive Blog made the announcement, saying that the changes will roll out over the next couple of weeks. For other options, check out our guide to the best cloud storage.
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Changes to the Google Drive storage page will mean you can easily keep track of how your storage space is being utilised. And if you need more storage, there is a set of revised additional storage plans starting at $4.99 per month for 100GB.
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Daniel John is Design Editor at Creative Bloq. He reports on the worlds of design, branding and lifestyle tech, and has covered several industry events including Milan Design Week, OFFF Barcelona and Adobe Max in Los Angeles.
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