Why does Gmail space keep going up?

[gsethi]

Isnt it increasing at a decreasing rate ? So that means there must be a MAX somewhere ??

And I am sure they dont have actual hard drive space of ~2.7GB for each subscribed user. They are giving a 2.7GB virtually. One of the possible models is when the ratio of empty hard drive space:used hard drive space reaches a certain threshold, then they know that they need to add more drives.

Ex (This is just a model that they could be using...I dont know what model they are actually using):
100 Users subscribed to Gmail @ 2.00GB each = 200 GB space required.
Company knows that not everyone will be using the full 2GB or even 1GB. So Gmail Servers only have 50GB of actual space. When the ACTUAL used space reaches ~30GB, then company adds another 25GB and so on.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

I don't know, but I'm at about 96% full.

 

[ForumMaster]

marketing. i have an email account that gives me 5000MB for free. so what? i don't need a tenth of that. and the service sucks. gmail just did so people would sign up and get interested.

 

[Bryophyte]

Originally posted by: AStar617

Originally posted by: FoBoT
it makes your epenis swell with pride

Aha... so that's why I'm at half-mast.

Originally posted by: novasatori
inflation

:laugh:

 

[randomlinh]

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.

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.

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.

that is still no where near what the storage would be if the majority of users were at 96%

 

[sswingle]

Using 65 MB (2%) here.

 

[ISAslot]

Let's popularize a 'Fill you Gmail account' day and see what happens!

 

[SoulAssassin]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
I don't know, but I'm at about 96% full.

Of actual mail or are you using it for storage? If that's just mail you need to get off the daily pr0n spam list.

 

[mobiblu]

another reason to take gmail over yahoo...

 

[Smartazz]

I think I only used 2% of my inbox space so far and it has been around 1/2 year I think.