In addition to 5 free gigabytes, Google Drive will be available to purchase 20 GB for $ 4 per month (updated)

A week ago, The Next Web edition announced the launch of the Google Drive service. Full information about this service appeared today - Google’s French blog was quick to announce its launch. And although the premature publication was quickly removed, the TechCrunch blog found a copy of it .

As it became known, Drive will allow you to open more than 30 types of documents directly in the browser, including video, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, even if you do not have these applications installed. Drive will interact with your existing Google Docs account, but the amount of information in Docs will not count towards the Drive limit.

The limit itself, as reported, will be 5 GB. If this is not enough, then it will be possible to purchase 20 GB for $ 4 per month, up to a maximum of 16 TB. Drive is expected to be available to Google Apps administrators, starting today — tomorrow. Google promises 99.9% uptime.
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The search function in the Drive will allow users to find documents by their type, owner and other parameters. If the document was scanned and recognized using OCR, the search will be able to search in the text itself. In the future will be available and search for images.

The official launch of Google Drive is expected within the next few hours. The Next Web notes that Google seems to be more focused on Box.net and other professional file storage services, rather than services like Dropbox.

UPD. After the publication of the topic, I found in my mailbox a notification from the Wuala service that it now can store not 2 GB, but 5 for free. It is alleged that this is in honor of the three-year anniversary of the association with LaCie.

UPD 2. The service is officially presented : drive.google.com . Regarding prices, the following is stated: “If this volume is not enough for you, it can be expanded to 25 GB with a monthly payment of $ 2.49, to 100 GB for $ 4.99 per month, and even to 1 TB for $ 49.99 per month".