Google Drive query

[loltim]

Guys, after my free 48GB Dropbox Samsung offer expired I've gone and purchased 100GB with Google Drive. It's significantly cheaper than Dropbox pro and I don't need anywhere near 1TB.

I have a folder called "photos" on my NAS that I want to sync to the cloud. This folder is mapped on my windows 8 machine as a network location.
Am I right in thinking that if I choose my mapped drive as the default Google Drive folder I will only have 2 copies of the photos folder (cloud and NAS) rather than 3 copies (cloud, NAS, laptop) if I was to use the default local Google Drive location.

Hope this makes sense :/

Also how does the sync work? Presumably the data on my NAS will never be overwritten by newer data in the cloud and it's only syncing "one way"? What if my photos folder on the NAS is accidentally emptied. The empty folder won't overwrite my photos in the cloud will it?

 

[KIA]

It syncs both ways. The above setup sounds very risky to me.

Why don't you put the photos on the NAS, share the folder and map it on the laptop.

You can use Duplicati to backup the photos folder on Google Drve.

 

[loltim]

It syncs both ways. The above setup sounds very risky to me.

Why don't you put the photos on the NAS, share the folder and map it on the laptop.

That's what I did?

I've now left my Google Drive default folder as the laptop C drive. Now the NAS files are always separate from the sync.

I think I just need to realise that Google Drive is sync, and not backup.