Google Doubles GMail Storage Space

Reports that GMail could launch today have been dismissed after Google detailed new plans for popular "invite-only" service. Speaking to CNet News late yesterday, GMail project manager Georges Harik dismissed rumors that the one year anniversary of the email service would mark its public debut. Instead, Harik detailed plans to immediately double the storage capacity of GMail accounts from 1GB to 2GB. In addition, Google will continue to increase GMail account capacity beyond 2GB; effectively creating a limitless storage medium for users.

"One gigabyte did seem like a lot, but it turns out there are a lot of heavy users of mail," he said. "They send attachments, share photos. It all adds up."

Herik did not provide a timeline for a public release, but with Google currently handing out 50 GMail invites to each user, one would wonder if it even matters. In direct response to the initial GMail threat, leading email providers had to signifigantly increase their storage capacity. This latest move by Google will undoubtedly spark another storage race, benefiting email users everywhere.

Update: Looks as though storage space is already on the move. Several users are reporting their accounts steadily increasing in size, or already near the new 2GB limit

Source: Neowin

O_o that's a lot of frikken storage. Keep up with that Microsoft

anyone needing that kind of storage for emails should use pop3 accounts imo. At least now Google have provided its users with a much simpler way to transfer CD copies over the internet

it appears if you watch slowly at the bottom off your gmail account it goes approx 50 MB every hour atm and they have appeard to say they cannot go unlimited but they will go from 2 GB and count upwards with space for a long time with all accounts... i think thats the messae thy are trying to gicve away on the new 'What's New' page on there homepag of www.gmail.com

What's so great about Gmail? is it just free storage you get with it?

just how much storage is gmail planning to give its users, i have 2045 Megabytes and its still increasing.

evil read this.....

Storage is an important part of email, but that doesn't mean you should have to worry about it. To celebrate our one-year birthday, we're giving everyone one more gigabyte. But why stop the party there? Our plan is to continue growing your storage beyond 2GBs by giving you more space as we are able. We know that email will only become more important in people's lives, and we want Gmail to keep up with our users and their needs. From Gmail, you can expect more.

on the www.gmail.com site it has a counter thin of how much teh size is gowing up

Gmail

And you can only get an account by someone inviting you?

yup, seems there keeping the idea of invite only...

Okay, can someone send me invite? I would like to try this email out.

sure PM me ur email ill send ya one

anyone needing that kind of storage for emails should use pop3 accounts imo. At least now Google have provided its users with a much simpler way to transfer CD copies over the internet tongue.gif

Gmail does have POP3 .

And my Gmail went up to 2052 MB, which is 2GB. So yes, it's applied.

The "Cool Thing" about Gmail is the way it does everything totally differently from every other email provider. And the fact that the ads don't suck. They're the only ads that I ever think about clicking (and sometimes I do).

anyone needing that kind of storage for emails should use pop3 accounts imo. At least now Google have provided its users with a much simpler way to transfer CD copies over the internet

anyone needing that kind of storage for emails should use pop3 accounts imo. At least now Google have provided its users with a much simpler way to transfer CD copies over the internet

Considering you can only send up to 10mb attachments, very unlikely.

anyone needing that kind of storage for emails should use pop3 accounts imo. At least now Google have provided its users with a much simpler way to transfer CD copies over the internet

 

anyone needing that kind of storage for emails should use pop3 accounts imo. At least now Google have provided its users with a much simpler way to transfer CD copies over the internet

 

Considering you can only send up to 10mb attachments, very unlikely.

well considering you got a 10 MB per-email sending limit and your average song is 3-6MB and you got 2GB of storage and your average CD is 700MB or so it is possible if you send the CD track by track .......

2Gb is 2048Mb not 2052Mb

Ah, so they are wrong.

2GB = 2,147,483,648 bytes

2GB = 2,097,152 kilobytes

2GB = 2,048 megabytes

(worked out in case anyone doesn't know binary/byte computation)

2052 is still really, really close. I'm not complaining.

i'm on 2059 now, woo!~

If you look on http://gmail.google.com you'll see it is rising thanks to the help of JavaScript. This number on the site is only an estimation.

Also, I can't get to the bloody site :@ Argh. So I haven't been able to check my gmail email since Sunday.

i use 'www.gmail.com' my size goes up by that counting storage size javascript