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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.
Taken from gmail help:
What's the maximum message size limit?
Answer return to Help Center
You can send and receive messages up to 10 megabytes (MB) total. Any message that exceeds this limit will not be delivered to your inbox and will be returned to the sender. If you attempt to send an email that exceeds this limit, you will get an error message and your email will not be sent.
"Still, i'd like to get an account when it goes live (and any storage above say, 1G isn't useful to me.)"
So basically they are giving you unlimited space since space is cheap. Obviously the more space means less and less to most people as I barely use 10mb, let alone 1,000mb. So call it marketing but they are telling you that google will take care of your technological needs. Whether its searching, storage, online shopping, or email now. I think its great. And I'm sure its safe to say we don't have to worry about google trying to screw us over later like other companies may do when we get hooked to their service.
How hard do you think it would be to write a script that emails files from your system to your gmail account is a sort of backup scheme. If the Subject : line included the date the message was sent I could keep multiple full backups in my free gmail account. Shouldn't be hard to base64 encode and email my $HOME to myself. Let's see my $HOME is $20G so I can keep ~50 full backups in my gmail account.
:-)
And since they support IMAP I can restore from backup with another script... I think I've got another little Perl hack coming on
John.
1000000megs.. I wonder what age I'll be when I have that much storage space on my computer.
Suppose current (cheap) PCs have a storage capacity of about 120 GB. We will then have the storage capacity of 1 TB in around 2.5 years.
Storage capacity doubles every 9 months, while CPU power doubles every 18 months.
A monkey is doing the real work for me.
I wanted to get my firstnamelastname@gmail.com, my names are very generic and would have been taken. I bought the other two for my wife and daughter. In hindsight, I probably didnt need to buy it, but the 75$ would have gone to something stupid like food or fuel anyway.
-- ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space!
My account says 1000MB. It may have been a bug, as the service is still in beta.
This is correct:
1024bytes = 1kilobyte
1024kilobytes = 1megabyte
1024megabytes = 1gigabyte
1024gigabytes = 1terabyte
1,099,511,627,776bytes = 1terabyte
The following is patently incorrect, and originated as false advertising among hard drive producers:
1000bytes = 1kilobyte
1000kilobytes = 1megabyte
1000megabytes = 1gigabyte
1000gigabytes = 1terabyte
It is now starting to catch on among those who should know better.
but I'm really uncomfortable with some of the social implications of GMail's services (along with some of the other services)
1) It seems like this promotes a tendency to centrally store all e-mail forever. No potential for any abuse by anyone there, right?
2) 10MB attachments. Uggh! Here I've spent years training my users to only send smaller files via e-mail. Maybe I'm out of touch with the times but I hate to think of the effect on bandwidth as people get accustomed to sending 10MB files through e-mail. To everyone on their address list. How long before GMail allows 25MB attachments in response to Lycos offering 15MB attachments?
You are newer than he is! God dammit that is so stupid.
Gmail Team to me More options 1:24pm (3½ hours ago) Hello, Thank you for your report. 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. Sincerely, The Gmail Team
"Persistence is annoying success." - ghee22 11:28:1999 - 10:53:PM