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Gmail Users Get A Storage Boost [updated]
Faies writes "As reported by ZDNet: Not to be outdone by Lycos, Google just upped its 1,000 megabyte accounts to 1,000,000 MB. I just recently checked my inbox, and the number at the bottom confirms this. "You are currently using 12 MB (0%) of your 1000000 MB." That's more than my hard drive...and plus, Google clearly wants to hold the title of being best, so who knows what will happen if someone else tries to compete with a terabyte." Now how much would you pay? Update: 05/19 13:34 GMT by T : Several comments to this thread indicate that the listed mailbox size limit has returned to the previous 1GB level, so this apparent change may be nothing more than the result of a misplaced decimal point.
I hope that is a typo, delivering 1TB of Email is plain crazy. Counting all the spam i ever received, and all the legit mail i dont even think i come close to 1TB. Thats like - a Life time of Mail (TM)
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I think google has more servers than they tould us, or a very good compression algorithm
Attachments are limited to 100kb.
Kidding...
But they are obviously joking. They'll likely just assign a team to target the top 5 percent of users who use the most space. My whole mail file from the past year is under a gig because people simply can't send large attachments from most accounts.
Anyone know what the email attachment size limit is?
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Strange.
I still see 1GB in my account, which it still says in the FAQ.
The faq also says a maximum of 10MB per message.
I've heard 10 Mb
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This is just getting crazy. I've saved every e-mail since 11/02 on my harddrive and it only uses about 150megs.
I submitted a related story last night that was rejected. Here's a copy of what I submitted in my Journal. Check out the links in the submission:
Gmail competition heats up
If you follow the links in the article to the blog pages who first reported it, you will see that everyone's limit has went back to 1GB.
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Remember its still in testing, i think this was a one off bug.
www.intelliot.com/blog/archives/2004/05/18/1-tera
For the price they want, I could still run my own server. It costs probably 100 a year for a server that can hold easily more than One Gigabyte in email\storage. There is no practical use for the account anyway that there isn't already a cheaper solution for.
The only reason anyone needs this sort of capacity is if they're sending huge attahments about and haven't got the sense to delete them from time to time.
email is one of the worst file transfer mechanisms around.
I'd far prefer a gig or so of FTP or HTTP space, that I can link to by email. Sadly, nobody realises that you can do this.
While I haven't seen additional confirmation either way, Mike Masnick at Techdirt checked with a friend at Google who stated the the apparent increase to 1TB was a mistake, not a storage upgrade.
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It is a dada story -- it has no moral.
Not long after I submitted this article, my account (and those of 4 others I know) reverted back to 1,000 MB. Since the article does mention that Google had no official comment, it's quite possible that this was all a fluke. I had observed the changes earlier in the evening, but waited to see if there was official confirmation from a large new source (i.e. ZDnet) before thinking this was for reals. As it turns out, it may not have been so.
For reference, my friends and I noticed the size reductions around 1:45 AM PST. They did not occur all at once; mine was one of the last ones to get set to 1,000 MB. Another small detail is that not all gmail accounts I knew of got set to a terabyte- there was one user who was feeling quite left out in the gigabyte pool.
Even though everybody seems to be talking about Lycos offering 1GB, I've seen very few people mention that Lycos' offer is not free.
To get the 1GB account you will need to cough up 3.49GBP a month.
Still a good offer though, if you don't have the option of running your own server, but definately not as good as Google's free version.
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The article mentions that so far only a few users are testing the 1,000,000 MB limit.
It never hurts to read the actual article.
they have those. It's called a shell account. ninjaskills.org has a good service like this, but I think you only get like 10 MB.
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Data backup, with a 1 gig of storage available Gmail makes for an excellent offsite backup. I even found a script to help automate the process
TEMM, as brillian as you are...I am sure the skilled engineers at google have already thought of this. File attachments are also limited to 10MB so 20MB scenario is bunk.
Everyone is talking about how to use Gmail for file storage. Here are the facts:
10MB ATTACHMENT file storage limit.
First off -- nothing is said about not having multiple attachments per email. This is a "Good Thing"(tm)
As far as I'm concerned, that fact alone makes it very viable to be used for quite a few purposes:
1. The gmail filesystem
Have a system setup where a UNIQUE Identifier as the Subject maps to a Directory Value map (stored on your local system) -- now all you need is this small file, and you have access to a terabyte of storage. Each email can then store the Files for that directory (also as unique ID #'d file attachments) -- each file could be stored as a 10MB split volume size compressed/ENCRYPTED rar
-- the encrypted now eliminates privacy concerns
1a. Now that you have a filesystem on a remote machine here are your limitations/advantages:
* Any file you access over 10MB will be slower, because it will have to reconstruct from multiple rars
* Any file modification, and initial uploading of files will be painful -- most of us have asyncronous internet connections.
* Imagine how fast you can now send people ANYTHING -- just FORWARD the email thats sitting around -- most likely won't even cause google to use more storage
2. -- this last point also brings us back to what someone said about warez kiddies.
If anyone remembers the warez kiddy days back in AOL -- they used huge pools of forwarded emails to send warez around -- AOL only had a few MB limit, and no multiple attachments per email IIRC.
Now, people could email you Office 2003, 3GB in 10 sec. -- could get a little hairy
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it would take me almost a year of receiving email (24x7) or 2.5 year of sending email to reach 1 Tb.
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Actually a filesystem is not that bad of an idea. Using the Coda filesystem to bring the file I/O calls to user space, you would not need much more development time to drive the calls to Gmail, especially if there is a webservice interface.
I got it through blogger ... have been using it frequently, so I got 2 invites. Gave 'em away. One of the invited guys now has 1 Tb, and one I haven't heard from. I still only have 1 Gb. Damn my generosity!
AFAIK, the guy with a Tb still has it.
If someone's going to start flinging around unsolicited multi-megabyte email messages, a lot of people are going to be pissed. Many of the people still on dial-up are only their because it's enough for what they want to do. I.e. email and looking for quilting patterns.
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GMail offering 1GB for free is nice, and with ignorable ads, I'm tempted to switch to them, obviously. Right now I'm a paying Yahoo Mail customer, and I look at the prices they charge even now.. 100MB for $59.99.. So Yahoo claims they'll offer 100MB for free and "virtually unlimited" for paying customers. Well, a big reason I went for Yahoo is because I have a highly configured personalized Yahoo homepage and wanted to integrate my mail smoothly into it. However, if anyone's tried putting the "Yahoo Mail Preview" into their Yahoo home page, they'll be dismayed to learn that it usually does not display correctly, and "times out" or whatever.
So I ended up removing it from my homepage, and now Yahoo's on equal footing again. Paying for ad free email is worth it, and the address guard service is nice (disposable email addresses), but Yahoo will sure look bad offering only one tenth the storage of what the competition offers. Yahoo claims they're not going to take it sitting down though, so I'm looking forward to seeing capitalism give me a nice deal from one of them.
I'm there also. You are currently using 4 MB (0%) of your 1000000 MB. at 10:10 AM EST
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I recall reading that gmail doesnt give you 1Gb or 1Tb of disk space, but compresses your data so it feels like you have that much disk space, and because text compresses rather well, you can stick 1Gb of text into a relitively tiny space.
I'm not sure where you read this, but I just mailed my gmail account a ~10 Mb zip file. I had under 1 Mb of mail currently up there and after receiving the zipped file the amount of used disk space reported to me was 11 Mb (or 1% of the 1000 Mb). Now, if you theory was correct my usage should have been reported as much higher (probably something on the order of %15-%25 percent). It wasn't.
is measured in base 10, not base 2.
I think they're in for the money.
Long term, I'd say yes.
give them a little piece of what they can really give little by little, so people will crave to buy...
They are not really in the email business (yet). Searching seems their main business as of now. And they pay that with advertising only?
I'd guess that the advertising revenues are chump change.
I have 340+ meg email plus several hundred megs archived. Finding something I know "has to be there" is a PITA. And I'm not really a heavy email user.
There has to be an eager market for something that can handle intelligent searches of all email.
You can only send 60 MB in an hour with a T1? That's the slowest T1 I've ever seen. It looks to me like you coud transfer a terabyte in about 63 days with a 1.544Mb connection. That would be roughly 694.8 MB in an hour. Mods, if the math is blatantly wrong, it may not be worthy of being a plus-5.
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wait until gmail is public, and there will be a fetchyahoo or gotmail program for gmail. It's quite easy, I dont manually log into my account on yahoo and hotmail more than once a month, sometimes I dont log manually for months
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Gmail Team to me
More options 10:02am (31 minutes ago)
Hello,
Thank you for your message and bug report regarding the incorrect quota
amount listed in your Gmail account.
As always, each Gmail user is offered 1,000 megabytes (MB) of storage.
We apologize for any confusion this issue may have caused. We are aware of
this problem, and our engineers are working diligently to find a solution.
In the meantime, sending and receiving email in your Gmail account will
reset your storage limit counter to 1,000 MB. We appreciate your patience
during our limited test period, and we thank you for taking the time to
send us your feedback and concerns.
We hope you enjoy Google's approach to email.
Sincerely,
The Gmail Team
I would say "sure" but GMail doesn't display or store email in the same way that other web based providers do.
Perhaps if you do not find enough value in .Mac, it's because you view the e-mail account as the most important feature.
.Mac account was created when iTools first came out, as a free service to promote OS 9. I just grabbed it for the cool e-mail account. Since mail was the only feature I made any real use of (other than a little bit of HomePage) I wasn't willing to pay $99 to keep it going when the .Mac changeover came. Last time I ever use someone else's domain for my primary e-mail address. Good lesson to learn. Anyway...now I have .Mac again, and I use it for the other stuff far more than I use the mail.
.Mac are: .Mac (which is $69 with a new Mac.) .Mac mail and Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail: .Mac mail is real mail. You can use both IMAP/POP/SMTP and a nice webmail interface. This is still key for many of us. I refuse to ever use webmail at home. It's only for use on someone else's computer.
.Mac, but that's not why I posted. Just wanted to share my personal experience.)
Granted, my first
In my opinion, the best features of
- seamless iDisk integration in the Finder (especially in 10.3)
- Share your public folder (example - not mine)on the web. The fastest way to get a file to someone else across the Internet.
- One-click photo album publishing from within iPhoto. Creates thumbnails and screen-size versions and lets you choose from many templates. Your visitors can view the photos in a slideshow viewer and click the photos within that to see the full resolution. View an example (not mine).
- Put a movie in your Movies folder, create a HomePage for it, and let Apple bother with embedding it properly, streaming it, etc. Again, templates are provided.
- Free Virex. Tends to cost $69 anyway, so when buying a new Mac you'd be silly not to get
- Backup utility. Pretty cool automatic backup utility.
- Here's a glaring difference between
- Auto-sync Bookmarks, Address Book, and iCal appointments/To Do items across all your Macs.
If you use it as just an e-mail service, I can understand why you would be disappointed at the pricing.
(Full disclosure: I work at a large computer retailer that sells