Google GDrive Online Storage Coming in 2009?

Throw out the old external hard drives you bought this past holiday season because the Google Drive or Gdrive as its better known is coming! The new Gdrive has been in discussions for many years now but new information makes us believe the Gdrive will be released in 2009.

The Gdrive will provide online storage of your entire hard drive if you so desire, giving the ability to sync data using a desktop component. This can provide an online backup of your data if your computer were to ever crash and also provide a central storage place for all of your pictures, documents, and other items you wish to share with other computers.

Google added a new feature in Picasa for Mac which shows a new option to move a collection to a "Google Web Drive" or Gdrive as we call it. Given Picasa users typically large photo libraries it seems entirely possible that the company is planning to launch the online backup service as we all have hoped for.