[l3lueMage]

has anyone noticed before you login it says on the side:
Don't throw anything away.
2057.566283 megabytes (and counting) of free storage so you'll never need to delete another message.

and the number keeps going up, and its true, I saw it goto 2057 and all of a sudden I had 2057MB of inbox space just over 2GB o.o
they keep giving us space ^^

[musicman2059]

I think it was part of their April Fool's joke. That started on April 1st and they haven't taken it off yet.

They are, however, planning to up their mailbox space to 2 GB

[l3lueMage]

why would it be an april fools joke :S

I mean ya its cool, and i think it started before April fools, because it has slowly been going up from 1GB...

[TheDogWho]

Mine is 2057mb. That's a lot of room.

[l3lueMage]

ya mine is at 2057MB also, and it keeps going up o.o

[Nobody]

I'm not exactly sure why it is still going up, but maybe the goal is 2.5GB/account. The part where is says (and counting) was probably an "advertising" technique (note the quotation marks). I don't understand why that would be the reason, because GMail is invite-only. However, at about the time of that (the countup) starting, I suddenly had 50 invites.

[musicman2059]

I've had 50 invites for quite a while, and I think many others have too.

[Power Piers]

Yeah, Gmail bumped up the invites to 50. Some people I know, when they use an invite, it doesn't go away.

[Nick Presta]

Yeah, the larger space is great.

I am using 3% of my gmail space at 2GB already.

[Max]

You people didn't read the announcements very well, because they said they were going to give all users 2GB PLUS they will continue to add additional space as it is available. That is why the number keeps going up. A company doesn't just "forget" to remove things from the site. It's on purpose, and I imagine it will keep going for quite awhile.

[musicman2059]

Ahh, I only read the 2GB part. I think it's insane that they're even doing this, it's practically unlimited.

I guess their April Fool's joke was actually factual.

[Nobody]

It seems to be factual, and not a joke. I wonder why the timing of adding the space was how it was; maybe it was an April Fools "joke" because everyone would think it it when it's really not.

[Nick Presta]

Quote

You people didn't read the announcements very well, because they said they were going to give all users 2GB PLUS they will continue to add additional space as it is available.

Just because I didn't mention it, doesn't mean I wasn't aware. =P



I was watching the space increase from 12midnight on Saturday to 2058 as it is now.

And yes, click on the "More Features" link to see what Gmail has in store.

[l3lueMage]

someone told me they visited the google HQ thingy, and they have a farm of servers, their servers add up to 2 picobytes

1 picobyte = 1000 terabytes = 1,000,000GB = 1,000,000,000MB
and so on, 2 of them o.o I think they have space to spare XD

[Nobody]

OMG. That's A LOT of space o_O. Many, many, many, many times greater than the amount of space in all of the computers of my house put together.
How can someone manage all that space? Not alone, that's for sure XD

[Max]

They did it on April 1st because that was the one year anniversary of GMail's launch (April 1, 2004).

And they don't use all of that space on GMail, they use it for alot of things. And I bet they have alot more than 2PB (petabytes, not picobytes) in all of their data centres combined.

[l3lueMage]

most likely do have tons, btw now we have 2058MB and its almost at 2059MB XD

[Nick Presta]

Heh. No one will ever use all of their space.

I downloaded a virtual drive for gmail and I dump my music into a music account I created. Same for my school work.

*huggles gmail*

[l3lueMage]

*invites self 50 times*, oooo 100GB of space XD

[Nobody]

nick1presta, on Apr 4 2005, 09:06 PM, said:

Heh. No one will ever use all of their space.

I downloaded a virtual drive for gmail and I dump my music into a music account I created. Same for my school work.

*huggles gmail*

Hey, how do you do that?It could really help save diskspace on my laptop (there is only 11.2 GB of disk space on it, and 2.02 GB of that is already used)

[l3lueMage]

just goto google and search gmail drive.

[Neo]

it's still rising, yesterday I had 2003 MB, and now I am on 2059 MB. I hope it keeps rising to about 10 Gb ;)

[musicman2059]

Hey! That's my lucky number! ;)

And yeah, I was about to say, isn't a picobyte like 0.0000000001 bytes? It's smaller than a nanobyte the last time I checked.

Still, that's huge seeing that you rarely see anything over a couple of terrabytes these days.

[Nobody]

I've never seen much over 50 GB to be honest. I didn't even know such large data measurements (reffering to terrabytes and petabytes) existed until this topic.

[Nick Presta]

Here, this may be useful:

1 kilobyte [kB] = 1 000 (103) bytes
1 megabyte [MB] = 1 000 000 (106) bytes
1 gigabyte [GB] = 1 000 000 000 (109) bytes
1 terabyte [TB] = 1 000 000 000 000 (1012) bytes
1 petabyte [PB] = 1 000 000 000 000 000 (1015) bytes
1 exabyte [EB] = 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 (1018) bytes
1 zettabyte [ZB] = 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 (1021) bytes
1 yottabyte [YB] = 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 (1024) bytes

[l3lueMage]

I want a Yottabyte for my computer o.O

anyone wanna donate one for me XD

[Gardna]

I want to use gmail virtual drive, but will i be able to do it even thought i haven't IE?

[l3lueMage]

U dont need IE, it looks just like a harddrive in My computer, u just goto My Computer and it says Gmail drive, and u log in to it and put/take files into/out of it :lol:

[Power Piers]

<ul><li>
            <p><font size=-1><b>Don't throw anything away.</b><br>
            <span id=quota>Over 2000</span> megabytes (and counting) of free storage so you'll never need to delete another message.</font></p>
          </li>
        </ul>
<script>
<!--
quota = el("quota");
updateQuota();
// -->
</script>

I don't know if that will work, but if it does, it's the counter for how much space there is.

EDIT: Never mind...stupid code...

[Elliott]

Thunderbird = infinate space =) .

[Nobody]

But POP3 email takes up space on your hard drive. 2GB+ lasts a very long time for email.

[Elliott]

I have an 80gig (buying another soon as well) hard drive, do you think I'm bothered?

[Sea of Time]

Pardon me for being a n00b but how do you get gmail and what are it's advantages over hotmail.

[lifeform287]

Right now you have to be invited to have Gmail.

It basiclly goes like this: (For me anyway)

Gmail>Shaw>Hotmail.

But, hey that's me.

[l3lueMage]

someone has to invite you to gmail, um ya... and its advantages, more space then any other free email, hotmail gives 2gb payed o.O we get more than 2gb free lol...

[Elliott]

As far as free e-mail goes it's by far the best.
But thunderbird owns for space and features, and hotmail lets you use MSN easily (though you can get a .NET passport for Gmail).

[Crimson Barrel Knight]

This is kinda off-topic, but, have you read the Firefox vs Opera topic, 'Gatio? Well, if so, I guess you like extensions. If not, go read now. It'll probably lighten up the subject for you.

[Elliott]

Crimson Barrel Knight, on Apr 18 2005, 12:54 PM, said:

This is kinda off-topic, but, have you read the Firefox vs Opera topic, 'Gatio? Well, if so, I guess you like extensions. If not, go read now. It'll probably lighten up the subject for you.

Why post that here?
Not kind of off-top, 100% totally completely off topic >_> .

[Tenchi_sonic]

wow i am at 2552.522360 and still rising < this is now an inacurate number due to it is still rising.

[Andross]

#1: That made no sense.
#2: THIS TOPIC WAS 6 DAMN MONTHS OLD.
#3: You added nothing important to the topic. Please plan your posts with a bit more reason next time.