Google Drive Will Battle Dropbox with 5 GB

The idea of the online hard drive has been around for as long as the web has.  FTP has always served as a proximal solution, allowing people with enough savvy easily upload and download files from whatever server they were interested in.  But these days, it’s all become much easier.  The data service Dropbox has become a huge hit by allowing people to add a folder to their computer which acts the same way as any other folder on their computer, but actually syncs with a cloud version of the same folder, thereby emulating local storage using cloud storage.