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Gmail Users Get A Storage Boost [updated]

Posted by timothy on from the one-jillion dept.

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.

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  1. free hard disk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First post. How exciting!
    Gmail seems like quite a cheap way to get a lot of hard disk space to me...

  2. Re:$75 for three invites off Ebay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well, you're not very good in the "spending money wisely department."

    But in the justification department you get an A.

    You also get an A+ in the "toot your own horn" department.

    So overall that's about B.

  3. Re:This is excellent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    "I recently got my entire hard drive wiped out when I messed up a Debian install."

    You Sir, are an idiot.