Originally Google Drive was just a cloud-based disk drive. It was just like a regular disk drive, except it stored documents in the cloud to make them available to any system with an Internet connection . This also meant that if you didn’t have an Internet connection, you didn’t have access to your data.
Later Google Drive became Google Backup and Sync. This system lets you have a directory that is replicated across all of your computers and the cloud. This means you have access to your ...
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