Google has announced another update to its Google Drive cloud service, which will significantly speed up the synchronization of a local copy of files on a user’s computer with those stored in the cloud.
Previously, Google Drive uploaded the entire updated file to the cloud, even if the update was minor. For example, if a user corrected only one letter in a huge 1 GB text document, Google Drive would re-upload the entire file to the cloud. And this happened every time such changes were made, even if it was a change of one letter in the entire document. Not very efficient.
Now, thanks to the new «differential upload» feature, Google Drive has become smart enough to know which parts of the file have changed. And now it only uploads those changed parts to the cloud for synchronization.
The end result is a much faster synchronization process in both directions, whether the user is uploading changed files to the cloud or synchronizing the device with changes from the cloud. This will also significantly reduce unnecessary data and network bandwidth usage.
The new differential download feature is already deployed in the Rapid and Scheduled Release channels and is widely available to anyone using Google Workspace or personal Google accounts.
Source: pcworld