Google is offering 1TB of Google Drive storage for free for two years to anyone who purchases a Chromebook during the holiday season. Normally, 1TB of Google Drive storage for two years would cost a total of $240.
Google has previously offered 100GB of Drive space for anyone purchasing a Chromebook. This offer is available to anyone with an eligible device, which include the Samsung Chromebook, HP's Chromebook 11, and more, through January 1, 2015.
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What would you do with 1TB of free Google Drive space, and will you be getting a Chromebook to take advantage of the offer? Let us know in the comments.
Source: Google Drive blog
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Google offers 1TB of Drive storage free with holiday Chromebook purchase
I bought the new Lg ChromeBase, I wasn't see the offer in anywhere, so I checked the google's redeems offers link , and then I got the 1TB offer free for two years, very surprised and so so happy :) Nice gift :D
Sorry for my english, from Barcelona, Catalonia.
Does this apply to Chromebox also?
This offer is also good for current owners. I bought mine a year ago and just got the extra 1TB.
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1 tb for two years free is about as useful as all other time limited "free" storag offers.
so i get 1TB for free and after two years i am supposed to spend 9.99 to keep them?
thanks but no thanks ... that is more than i have to spend on my office365 subscription (family edition) and there i get a total of
- 5 installations of office on pc/mac
- 5 on tablets
- 5 on mobile phones
- AND can invite 4 people to my subscription with each one of them recieving 1 TB onedrive totalling to 5 TB
that is not even mentioning that the limit on onedrive for office subscription accounts is about to be removed so by next year you actually get 5x unlimited storage ... for 99,-- a year / 8,25 a month (or 9,99 a month if i you pay monthly if i am not mistaken)
google has to do way better than 1 TB for two years to offer anything substantial in terms of online-storage as an incentive.
I just bought the HP Chromebook. Is there a link I'm supposed to click on to get the extra storage?
Goto drive.google.com/redeem
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Thanks! Got it :)
just got my 1 tb of storage. I got a toshiba chrome back like 3 weeks ago and redeemed for 100gb then returned and got a refurb c720 from walmart for for 150$ and never tried to redeem because I heard you could not redeem the 100gb on 2 accounts but just went to redeem and got my 1tb thank you google
Yea....wish I could get one.
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Great News!
Just bought my wife the Toshiba Chromebook 2 earlier this week for Christmas.
Our first Chromebook, this is a nice bonus.
I just purchased the Toshiba Chromebook 2. That gave me free 100gb. If I return it then purchase it again during the holidays, will I'll be able to get this deal?
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Go back and check the page again.
I bought an Asus C300 from Best Buy and I can't get my 100mb of storage. It says Whoops your device isn't eligible for this promotion. It was a new sealed computer. Does every chromebook come with the drive storage?
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I had the same problem before, with that same exact Chromebook. What fixed it for me was doing a Powerwash. I'd definitely give that a try and then go back and try to redeem the promo again.
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I need neither
Thanks for letting us all know that.
any time
Valid outside the US?
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Right, so I bought a Samsung Chromebook back in December 2012, and the storage has stayed with me since then. But when I bought my new Acer Chromebook a few months ago, I couldn't redeem the offer (presumably because I had done before, same thing happened with Play Music), so being reliant on Google Drive I wasn't sure what I would do after my two years were up. But I could redeem this new 1TB offer for some reason, even though I haven't bought a new Chromebook (I just went to the Goodies page on my Acer to give it a shot).
Yay.
Damn, just got one last month and just got the 100GB. Oh well.
go check the deals page for your Chromebook, it might let you upgrade to the 1TB. I got mine 2 weeks age and i could upgrade to the 1TB
Buy 1TB of Google Drive space for two years and get a Chromebook for free!
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It's a trap!
Wubba lubba dub dub!
LoL!
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Why when I upload files to Drive, I get a notification saying my phone's storage is being used up? I thought Drive was a cloud storage.
If you're uploading files from your Android device, you had to download them to begin with.
Pictures and videos that I have on my phone already. When I put them into Drive, my phone storage was cut in half and I even got a notification saying my storage was running out
Are you syncing the device? Turn it off.
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So turn sync off in the phone settings then try it?
I was thinking about getting a Chromebook anyway, but I may have to to take advantage of this deal. I currently pay for 1tb of drive storage, but it would be nice to cancel it and get it for free for 2 years.
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Depending on which Chromebook you get this could be like a free Chromebook for you since you save $240 from what you already spend. .
You wouldn't even have to cancel; they'll just stop billing you. It's pretty seamless.
Would be nice if Google did the same for Android phones. Hint, hint Amazon... want to help your Fire Phone?
Nothing can save that POS.
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Can someone explain how people buy storage per year/two years? If you don't pay after the time is up, do you lose all your data stored on that storage?
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When your payment is up, they don't delete your storage. You just can't access/download it until you pay to have the storage again. I'm sure there's some limitation to that, but in either case Google/Dropbox/Amazon/Microsoft don't just wipe your account if you fail to pay on the last day.
Wrong Andrew. You can access it but you wont be able to create new files
Technically you are both wrong.
You'll be able to create a Google Sheet, Doc, Slide since it doesn't count to your storage allotment. But that's just me nitpicking. :p
There ya go, that's the difference. I always pay my Drive bill ;)
Read here
http://ddvsg.blogspot.com/2015/01/google-now-offering-1tb-free-google.html
No, you can keep all your data, but you won't be able to add anything until you delete enough to be below your new limit (or buy storage again).
Same with Dropbox. Recently had Samsung promo storage dropped and it said I'd be able to access it all just not be able to upload.
And since that bin also includes your Gmail storage space, you won't be able to send/receive emails with that account, either!
Don't store your important pr0n on there then.
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The typical way it works is that if you don't pay, then you're not able to save any more content to your cloud storage but everything you've saved is still available for you to access in the cloud.
At least this is how it was when my Dropbox promo expired and I didn't renew my subscription