Picasa storage price drop

Pyro Boy · 11-11-2009 8:25pm #1

My first bargain alert (hope you think it is a bargain)
Google Picasa photo and video storage price have been reduced from $20 per year to:

20 GB ($5.00 USD per year) = about €3.50

there are other storage limits too see here https://www.google.com/accounts/PurchaseStorage

Edit : price with tax is $6.07
thanks kaimera

nobeastsofierce · 11-11-2009 9:54pm

That is a good find, was looking at this a few weeks ago, and it was definitely much dearer. I am pedantic about photo backup, so will probably invest in this when my current solution expires. It also ties in nicely if anyone is using Googles Picasa software

unklerosco · 12-11-2009 9:29am

Thanks for that OP, already have a stack of photos on there... Gonna put the rest up over the weekend..

Denisoftus · 12-11-2009 10:28am

Nice one, cheers mate, just purchased 20Gb.

smiddyboy · 12-11-2009 11:28am

Thanks, just got 20Gb, will do nicely for our recent wedding/honeymoon pics! Wife would kill me if i lost those!

Canacourse · 12-11-2009 12:03pm

I use http://www.idrive.com/
Your can get 2GB for free, But I purchased the 150GB option for around €35 PA. Into my 2nd year and have around 110GB backed up already.

spooky donkey · 12-11-2009 2:19pm

nice one. I have 3 picasa accounts just ot have 3 gig. It would be worth my while now to get a 20 gig account for that price.

kaimera · 12-11-2009 2:42pm

actually, price is $6.07 after tax is added.

pjproby · 12-11-2009 5:18pm

thanks-got that

green123 · 12-11-2009 5:42pm

gmail has 7gb free but each chunk of data can only be 25mb.

what is the limit on the size of each chunk of data within this 20gb deal ?

green123 · 13-11-2009 2:19pm

whats the catch with this offer ?
50 gb free storage :
http://www.adrive.com/plans

kaimera · 13-11-2009 2:21pm

green123 wrote: »

whats the catch with this offer ?
50 gb free storage :
http://www.adrive.com/plans

well for one,

thats for backup and storage.

the offer here is for google apps - gmail/picasa storage.

Bawnmore · 13-11-2009 2:29pm

Does anybody know if after a year you'll get hit for $20 for the following year?

Pyro Boy · 13-11-2009 7:13pm

Bawnmore wrote: »

Does anybody know if after a year you'll get hit for $20 for the following year?

By default, this storage will auto-renew at the end of the year. You can change this setting at the time of purchase or at any time during the year. We'll send two reminder emails, both 30 and 3 days before the renewal charge.

source http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=57602

IH77 · 13-11-2009 7:42pm

green123 wrote: »

whats the catch with this offer ?
50 gb free storage :
http://www.adrive.com/plans

I wouldn't trust an unknown company with 50GB of my data, especially a company that claims they will store it for free!

The Lone Ranger · 16-11-2009 8:45pm

correct me if i'm wrong but does skydrive on windows live give you 25gb for free.

long_b · 22-01-2010 9:42pm

Just thought I'd mention this, for those people like me looking to use this for backup primarily like me.

Max 1000 files per folder
Max 1000 folders

The first one is the one that got me - all our photos were synced to the "Pictures" folder on PC.