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Why does Gmail space keep going up?

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Smartazz

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When I signed up for gmail it was at around 2GB, now it's up to 2.7GB and everyday it goes up slowly. Any reason for this?
 
Marketing. When google started giving the huge limits so did a bunch of other people. In order to avoid playing a leapfrog game they just put the counter in so it was constantly increasing.
 
so wait a second, there's a little man constantly adding new hard drives at google's server farm? i'm glad i dont have that guy's job
 
Originally posted by: erub
so wait a second, there's a little man constantly adding new hard drives at google's server farm? i'm glad i dont have that guy's job
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Actually, it turns out Google is just a spyware program from the 90's that's run off of millions of unsecured computers in old people's homes.
 
Originally posted by: Trevelyan
Originally posted by: erub
so wait a second, there's a little man constantly adding new hard drives at google's server farm? i'm glad i dont have that guy's job
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Actually, it turns out Google is just a spyware program from the 90's that's run off of millions of unsecured computers in old people's homes.
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:thumbsup:
 
When they increased the storage limit from 1GB to 2GB on 04/01/05, they also said that they were going to gradually increase it by about a Gig a year from that point onward.

I can only imagine the size of the SAN that they would need in order to store that much mail.
 
Originally posted by: Trevelyan
Originally posted by: erub
so wait a second, there's a little man constantly adding new hard drives at google's server farm? i'm glad i dont have that guy's job
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Actually, it turns out Google is just a spyware program from the 90's that's run off of millions of unsecured computers in old people's homes.
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:laugh: :thumbsup: :beer:
 
Originally posted by: ultimatebob
When they increased the storage limit from 1GB to 2GB on 04/01/05, they also said that they were going to gradually increase it by about a Gig a year from that point onward.
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Exactly. And I bet the average user has 1GB or less full, so they can quote 2.7GB and rising per person. I doubt they have that much server space dedicated. Overstated.

 
Originally posted by: erub
so wait a second, there's a little man constantly adding new hard drives at google's server farm? i'm glad i dont have that guy's job
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not drives - he adds them a platter at a time so that they increase by small but constant increments
 
Originally posted by: ultimatebob
When they increased the storage limit from 1GB to 2GB on 04/01/05, they also said that they were going to gradually increase it by about a Gig a year from that point onward.

I can only imagine the size of the SAN that they would need in order to store that much mail.
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but it's no where near full. I have all my personal email and it's taking up about 70MB... hahaha.. that's about 2yrs worth. then again, most of it is order confirmations.
 
Originally posted by: randomlinh
Originally posted by: ultimatebob
When they increased the storage limit from 1GB to 2GB on 04/01/05, they also said that they were going to gradually increase it by about a Gig a year from that point onward.

I can only imagine the size of the SAN that they would need in order to store that much mail.
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but it's no where near full. I have all my personal email and it's taking up about 70MB... hahaha.. that's about 2yrs worth. then again, most of it is order confirmations.
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I got about 200 MB in my GMail inbox right now. Assuming that most people have half of that, they would be up to 500 Terabytes of storage used if they had 5 million active accounts right now.
 
Originally posted by: ultimatebob
Originally posted by: randomlinh
Originally posted by: ultimatebob
When they increased the storage limit from 1GB to 2GB on 04/01/05, they also said that they were going to gradually increase it by about a Gig a year from that point onward.

I can only imagine the size of the SAN that they would need in order to store that much mail.
Click to expand...

but it's no where near full. I have all my personal email and it's taking up about 70MB... hahaha.. that's about 2yrs worth. then again, most of it is order confirmations.
Click to expand...

I got about 200 MB in my GMail inbox right now. Assuming that most people have half of that, they would be up to 500 Terabytes of storage used if they had 5 million active accounts right now.
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damn! need to use your gmail for storage more! I'm at 1.2 Gb and increasing!! Woohoooo for Gmail!
 
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