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    Gmail storage rising by the second

    http://gmail.google.com/

    It's hard to determine the intervals in which it rises, here's what I figured out:

    .000037481481481481MB... per second.

    Approximately 3.25MB/week. It's a nice lil' "more storage per second" thing, but obviously it's not hurting Google.

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    G-Mail's storage is rising at about 2.747 megabytes a day, I believe. It works out to one gigabyte a year.

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    Is that a special effect or is that number linked to some sort of calculation system?

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    So is that 3.7481481481481E-14 per nanosecond?
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    That's too much math for me... Imagine all that spaaaaaace!

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    The answer is that Google is the root of all evil

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    They are just trying to compete with all the other servers that now offer 1000 Megs also.........

    Tinyurl is the answer for posting long urls!!!

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    Will hotmail follow suit with the 1 gig?

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    Maybe Hotmail should clean up their site and mailbox first

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    I think they oversell...
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    I have not tried gmail yet. Is it still in the testing stages?

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    I think they oversell...
    I highly doubt it... Google has loads of servers and did you know you can buy 1,000 GB hard drives? I have a tower in my room that can hold up to 5 hard drives. ( 5 x 1,000 GB = 5,000 GB)
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    google must be having some kind of in-built clustering solution which will keep increasing disk space by just adding one more hard drive to it.
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    X-Max, not quite. Google doesn't actually have the space they allot. What they do is add more harddrives [using the term very loosely] as more space is used. So they could add 100GB of space to every account, but won't add a single drive until people actually use the space.

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    Originally posted by DanX
    X-Max, not quite. Google doesn't actually have the space they allot. What they do is add more harddrives [using the term very loosely] as more space is used. So they could add 100GB of space to every account, but won't add a single drive until people actually use the space.
    eveb if they do use all the space i think will just search peoples accounts and find porn or warez etc and just disable all those accounts

    put it this way u aint gunna have 3gb worth of text e-mails thats for sure.

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    In this case, I will buy western digital or hitachi shares!

    1000 Gb HD ? I never heard about. The biggest I know has 400 Gb.
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    Google are definitely over "selling". If you imagine how many google accounts there, and multiply them by 2.2GB, you'd be quite shocked and amazed. Let's say there are 1,000,000 Gmail accounts (there are probably more), the total space provided is 2.2 x 10^6 = 2200000GB.

    I doubt they'll allocate that much hard drive space . They, like most people, know very few people will use the full space.
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    Just a thought here, but i don't think their gmail business model can sustain itself.

    It works fine as long as people are actually occasionally checking their archived mail, since they make money when people do that.

    But 5 years from now a lot of people will keep their old emails on the system and never check them. It's eating up hard-drive space that google doesn't make any money on.

    It may work if hard-drive space gets really, really cheap though, but they still have to pay for an ever increasing infrastructure that they won't make much money on down the road.

    What does everyone else think?

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    In few years, they will prompt people to delete emails older than x years... google are short term players and they oversell anything and too much.
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    I don't even get 2.5 MB of e-mail a day. Google has gone O_O extreme...whoa.
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    google doesn't make any money
    Now Gint, this isn't true. Heard of Adsense?

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    I click on a lot of gmail ads, they are better than the search ads

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    Originally posted by whatever
    Now Gint, this isn't true. Heard of Adsense?
    I think you have misquoted me Whatever. I never said "google doesn't make any money". What I did say was:

    "It may work if hard-drive space gets really, really cheap though, but they still have to pay for an ever increasing infrastructure that they won't make much money on down the road."

    Of course I'm specifically talking about gmail. (Google has a great business model for adsense and their search engine)

    btw: Adsense only works if someone views the page the ad is on. In this case we would be talking about content that is very very seldom viewed.

    -Gint

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    Originally posted by Gint

    But 5 years from now a lot of people will keep their old emails on the system and never check them. It's eating up hard-drive space that google doesn't make any money on.

    Unless of course they open up the search feature to include other peoples mailboxes.

    It's not so far fetched when you consider they have already opened up searching a users mail content to advertisers.

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    Google certainly oversells. I don't know anyone who has used the whole space. Come on, we use 30-75mb at max (usually)!
    By the way Gmail certainly makes a lot of money, never noticed the ads (Adsense) at the right?

    Jesus, do you guys think Google does anything that has any possibility of losing money?
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