Update 6:15pm

Status: No Issues
The problem with Google Drive should be resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support. Please rest assured that system reliability is a top priority at Google, and we are making continuous improvements to make our systems better.

August 8, 2016 2:11:00 PM PDT

Update 4:20pm

Hangouts Status: No Issues
The problem with Google Hangouts should be resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support. Please rest assured that system reliability is a top priority at Google, and we are making continuous improvements to make our systems better.

August 8, 2016 12:48:00 PM PDT

Drive Status: Service disruption
Our team is continuing to investigate this issue. We will provide an update by August 8, 2016 1:00:00 PM PDT with more information about this problem. Thank you for your patience.
Affected users are encountering the error “The server encountered an error. Please try again later.” We estimate that the issue is affecting less than 1.5% of the Drive user base

August 8, 2016 11:55:00 AM PDT

Original post from Google:

We are continuing to investigate this issue. We will provide an update by August 8, 2016 11:55:00 AM PDT detailing when we expect to resolve the problem.
Affected users are encountering the error “The server encountered an error. Please try again later”

August 8, 2016 10:54:00 AM PDT