# google-drive

## The Trap

You uploaded 2 TB of photos, videos, and backups to the cloud. Life was good — until you wanted to move them somewhere else.

Suddenly, you’re hit with **egress fees**, per-GB migration charges, and the realization that your cloud provider has been counting on you never leaving. It’s your data. But moving it costs real money — every single time.

AWS charges ~$0.09/GB for egress. That’s **$184 just to download 2 TB of your own files**. Want to use a SaaS migration tool? That’s another $10–20/month, with transfer caps. Prefer the open-source CLI route? Clear your afternoon — you’ll need it for YAML configs, credential files, and provider-specific quirks.

## The Math

Let’s talk real numbers. Over three years, here’s what you’ll pay using common approaches:

| Approach               | 3-Year Cost  | Catch                                 |
|------------------------|--------------|---------------------------------------|
| **SaaS Migration Tool**| ~$360        | Monthly sub + data caps               |
| **Per-GB Service**     | ~$720+       | $0.03/GB, billed every transfer       |
| **DIY with CLI**       | 40+ hours    | Config per provider, no UI, breaks silently|
| **Blober**             | **One payment** | Unlimited transfers. Forever.        |

The subscription model is designed to extract value from you month after month. The per-GB model punishes you for having more data. The CLI path trades money for your time.

Blober breaks the cycle. **Pay once. Transfer as much as you want, as many times as you want.** No meter running. No renewal emails. No “upgrade to unlock more.”

## The Escape

Blober is a desktop app — not a SaaS, not a CLI tool, not a cloud service. It runs on your Mac, Windows, or Linux machine and connects directly to your cloud providers:

- **AWS S3** — buckets and objects, any region
- **Azure Blob Storage** — containers and blobs
- **Google Drive** — files and folders, including shared drives
- **GoPro Cloud** — back up your action footage locally or to any cloud
- **Backblaze B2** — the affordable S3 alternative
- **Dropbox** — personal and business accounts
- **Cloudflare R2** — zero-egress object storage
- **Wasabi** — hot storage without the cold fees
- **DigitalOcean Spaces** — all regions, auto-detected
- **Local Disk** — any folder on your machine

Your files never touch a middleman server. Blober streams directly between your machine and the provider APIs. Browse your cloud storage visually, select what you want, pick a destination — done.

If a transfer gets interrupted (bad WiFi, laptop closed, provider hiccup), Blober picks up where it left off. No re-uploading. No duplicate files.

## The Move

Here’s what switching to Blober actually looks like:

**Before:** You’re juggling browser tabs, CLI sessions, and a spreadsheet tracking which files went where. A SaaS tool emails you that you’ve hit your 1.2 TB monthly cap. You Google “rclone config azure” for the third time.

**After:** You open Blober. Connect your accounts. Drag from source to destination. Walk away. It just works.

No account required to transfer. No internet needed for local-to-local moves. No data ever leaves your machine unless you’re sending it to a cloud provider _you_ chose.

## Who Is This For?

- **Photographers & videographers** moving terabytes of footage from GoPro Cloud or Google Drive to cheaper archival storage
- **Developers & DevOps engineers** migrating between S3-compatible providers without writing scripts
- **Small businesses** consolidating cloud storage without paying an enterprise migration service
- **Privacy-conscious users** who want their files transferred directly, not through a third-party cloud
- **Anyone tired of paying monthly fees** to tools that move files you already own

## The Problem

Transferring files between cloud providers today means monthly subscriptions, surprise transfer fees, and wrestling with CLI config files. Most tools are either expensive SaaS platforms or developer-only terminals with steep learning curves.

## The Solution

Blober is a desktop app that connects all your cloud storage in one place. AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Drive, GoPro Cloud, OneDrive, Backblaze B2, and local disk — all supported out of the box. No CLI. No config files. Just a beautiful, intuitive interface.

## The Value

Buy once, transfer forever. No subscriptions. No transfer fees. Blober runs natively on Mac, Windows, and Linux — and it works offline too.