Every few seconds the system tray spawns another Google Drive icon. The drive app regularly surpasses 7GB of RAM usage, CPU is consistently above 20%.

Just removed Backup and Sync and installed the new Google Drive for Desktop. People said that they experience high CPU, RAM, and disk usage every time they boot up their machines, with Google Drive consuming resources for hours on end. For others, it uses a large chunk of CPU and in some cases, an absurd amount of RAM. User reports suggest that the app sometimes causes 100% disk usage, causing their PC to come to a crawl and making it borderline unusable. With that being said, it looks like a bunch of Google Drive users say that the app has high CPU, RAM, and disk usage. Recently, some users expressed their frustration over the inability to select folders they wanted to sync.

Having said that, Drive users frequently face some bugs and issues that often break some useful features. Since its launch in 2012, it has had more than 2 billion monthly active users with 6 million making use of paid services.Īvailable in more than 130 countries, the service is used by more than 1000 organizations. Google Drive is one of the most popular cloud storage services on the internet.

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