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05-12-2005, 10:20 PM #1Web Hosting Master
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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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05-12-2005, 10:27 PM #2Web Hosting Master
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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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05-13-2005, 07:15 PM #3WHT Addict
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Is that a special effect or is that number linked to some sort of calculation system?
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05-13-2005, 08:05 PM #4Web Hosting Master
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So is that 3.7481481481481E-14 per nanosecond?
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05-13-2005, 08:34 PM #5Disabled
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That's too much math for me... Imagine all that spaaaaaace!
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05-13-2005, 08:41 PM #6Newbie
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The answer is that Google is the root of all evil
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05-14-2005, 12:34 AM #7An Awesome Dude
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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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05-14-2005, 04:22 PM #8Web Hosting Master
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Will hotmail follow suit with the 1 gig?
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05-14-2005, 04:44 PM #9Web Hosting Master
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Maybe Hotmail should clean up their site and mailbox first
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05-14-2005, 05:12 PM #10Web Hosting Master
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I think they oversell...
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05-14-2005, 05:20 PM #11Web Hosting Master
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I have not tried gmail yet. Is it still in the testing stages?
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05-14-2005, 05:28 PM #12Web Hosting Master
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I think they oversell...Kerry Jones
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05-14-2005, 05:46 PM #13Aspiring Evangelist
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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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05-14-2005, 05:53 PM #14Web Developer
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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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05-14-2005, 06:08 PM #15Web Hosting Master
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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.
put it this way u aint gunna have 3gb worth of text e-mails thats for sure.
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05-14-2005, 06:09 PM #16Web Hosting Master
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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.Enterprise Consultant
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05-14-2005, 07:23 PM #17Web Hosting Master
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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.<?php include_once('signature'); ?>
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05-14-2005, 07:48 PM #18Junior Guru Wannabe
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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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05-14-2005, 07:53 PM #19Web Hosting Master
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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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05-14-2005, 09:26 PM #20WHT Addict
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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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05-15-2005, 12:55 AM #21Web Hosting Master
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google doesn't make any money
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05-15-2005, 01:15 AM #22Owner of the net for a day
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I click on a lot of gmail ads, they are better than the search ads
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05-15-2005, 09:15 AM #23Junior Guru Wannabe
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Originally posted by whatever
Now Gint, this isn't true. Heard of Adsense?
"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.
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05-15-2005, 09:20 AM #24Junior Guru Wannabe
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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.
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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05-15-2005, 09:26 AM #25Newbie
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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?
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