Ahead of its I/O event this week, Google is performing some quick spring cleaning—the good kind!—by unifying Gmail, Drive and photo storage into one lump sum. Moving forward, instead of having 10GB for Gmail and 5GB for Drive and Picasa / Google+ photos, the search giant has combined the two so you have more storage for the stuff you want, whether it’s documents or those new headshots of yours. The added space will be highly convenient, particularly for anyone with large video files. 15GB, incidentally, is quite a bit of free storage right off the bat, meaning your Drive account is a pretty competitive option against the likes of Dropbox.
Unfortunately, Google has also done away with one of its storage tiers — previously, users could add 25GB of storage to Drive for $2.49 per month. That option is now gone; the cheapest extended storage option is adding 100GB to your Google account for $4.99 per month. That's half the price of Dropbox's 100GB plan, and some recent improvements to Drive have made it even better as a Dropbox replacement than ever. As for those with the $2.49 25GB plan, a Google spokeperson confirmed that users will be able to keep it until they cancel or change their plan — but new users will have to jump in at the 100GB tier. As with so many of Google's changes, these new Drive plans will start rolling out to users "over the next couple of weeks."
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