Google Photos storageand Drive
Google is to combine the free storage offered for Drive and Photos. Why is this of interest?
Well, let’s remember that when Google launched Drive, it provided users with 5GB of free space, and that was kept separate from the storage you would get as a user of Photos (aka Picasa), which had 1GB of free storage. Now, Google is changing that policy to have the 5GB storage shared between Drive and Photos.
If you’re using Photos a lot, but not Drive, this will be a good change, because you’ll suddenly have 4GB more free space. If you only use Drive, you won’t notice a change. And, if you use both, you may see yourself heading towards the need to buy a storage upgrade from Google.
Some may find the change useful, others – not. Well, you can’t satisfy just about everybody, can you!
However, one big note is that if you upgrade to 25GB of storage, you’ll end up with 25GB of storage instead of 31GB (25+5+1) that you would have had before.
