Google plans to double Gmail capacity

[yisman]

Is this an April Fool's joke? How can they do this? Doubled immediately for the many users? Daily increases? No one needs so much space anyway, unless you're using it as another hard drive or something.

[PukiMan]

It's stuck on 1085 on my account:

You are currently using 7 MB (1%) of your 1085 MB.

Will check in our hour if it's going up.

[AcdShdw]

anyone have an idea on the gmail servers how big they must be? seriously with 2 gigs free space how are they giving all this away for free anyhow?

edit: HOLY ****!!!,

"You are currently using 21 MB (2%) of your 1086 MB."

i just checked it 15 min ago it was 1000mb!!!

[MarkMS]

ok, i noticed something when i justed checked my gmail account.  Whenever i refresh the page the storage amount increases.  Is it just me or is gmail upgrading storage 1MB at a time?

:wacko: :pinch:

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OMFG! Dude .. I just went from 1076 to 1085 from when I posted to the thread to when I replied to your post.

[yisman]

Hmm right now my Gmail says I have 1031 MB... didn't it used to say 1000 MB? :huh:

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Whoops.

Edited April 1, 2005 by yisman

[[M]]

yup..i guess that gmail really is upgrading all accoutns by 1MB ata time. hahaha :laugh:

i suppose everyones accounts are steadily increasing...

[MarkMS]

anyone have an idea on the gmail servers how big they must be? seriously with 2 gigs free space how are they giving all this away for free anyhow?

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Huge clusters? It is pretty amazing how they are able to just give out 1GB, especially Yahoo! with millions of accounts.

Now I'm from 1076 to 1085 and now to 1087!! Google is getting me excited now!

[J=n=o]

some hours ago I checked my gmail account and was at 1000 MB, then right now it is at 1085 MB

Edit

now 1088 MB

[AcdShdw]

Huge clusters? It is pretty amazing how they are able to just give out 1GB, especially Yahoo! with millions of accounts.

Now I'm from 1076 to 1085 and now to 1087!! Google is getting me excited now!

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ya seriously i cant even imagine on how many they have right now not to mention the new increases that are happening this very moment

[NienorGT]

Can anyone stop to quote his space?

and anyone can test to pass beyond 1GB to see if it's true or not?

[Koolslacker]

If Google is doubling the space, I'll take it even though I use only 2% of 1 GB.

Way to go Google. (Y)

[MarkMS]

Can anyone stop to quote his space?

and anyone can test to pass beyond 1GB to see if it's true or not?

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I can test, by uploading my music, but that would take days and they might suspend my account for thinking that I'm uploading warez or something.

I could make a new account and test that.

[AcdShdw]

i think google is gonna take over the planet afterall.....

[MarkMS]

i think google is gonna take over the planet afterall.....

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I would'nt be supriesed if they did! :)

[AcdShdw]

I can test, by uploading my music, but that would take days and they might suspend my account for thinking that I'm uploading warez or something.

I could make a new account and test that.

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upload like 2 linux distro iso images or somethin their legal

[MarkMS]

upload like 2 linux distro iso images or somethin their legal

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but email attachment size limits are at 10MB

[[M]]

as i said.. gmail is upgrading by giving everyone 1MB extra every so often. i'm up to 1092 MB..

@ MarkMS: if only they'd increase the attachment limit size too.

[MarkMS]

as i said.. gmail is upgrading by giving everyone 1MB extra every so often.  i'm up to 1092 MB..

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I know! I just want to go to sleep and wake up tomorrow and see how much space they will be able to give their users.

[BeyondGodlike]

OMG

gmail is alive

the space keeps goin up

OMGz0rz

[pacifica]

here is the pic

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i just noticed that too. mine says 1093!

[L3thal Veteran]

as i said.. gmail is upgrading by giving everyone 1MB extra every so often.  i'm up to 1092 MB..

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Actually, I believe you may be correct. Ten minutes ago I had 1082MB and now I have 1093. Oh well, not like I even need 100mb :p

[MarkMS]

Everyone go to the GMail home page! Quick!

A Google approach to math.   

On the eve of Gmail's one-year birthday, our engineers were toiling away furiously. Notes scribbled all over the walls. Complex calculations on napkins and empty pizza boxes. Millions of M&Ms.

The result?... starting today, we're beginning the roll-out of our new and top secret Infinity+1 storage plan. The key features are:

    *

      Write, don't worry.

      You want to stop caring about storage. We want to keep giving you more. Today, and beyond.

    *

      The gift that keeps on giving.

      1096.644111 megabytes of storage (and counting) for every user.

    *

      No complicated equations. No tough algorithms.

      Just this one graph:

[lardiop Veteran]

Quick, someone do the math!

[Edi]

LOL

nice joke :)

if they were really planning to give us 2GB, they would increase it directly to 2GB (first to a few users, then extend it gradually to all, like they do with every new feature).

This is just a joke... not their style... to increase with a few MB to ALL of us in the same time.

Anyway, i'm glad they added rich text editing :) now waiting HTML support ;)

[Rushnak]

I wish they'd take away the 10mb attachments, then this would actually come into use.