Gmail offers 7.39GB of storage for free.
Google storage is shared between Gmail and Picasa Web Albums. You get extra space in both services, in addition to your current free quota.
You can now buy 20 GB for only $5 a year, twice as much storage for a quarter of the old price, and enough space for more than 10,000 full resolution pictures taken with a five megapixel camera. And if you need more than 20 GB, you can purchase up to 16 terabytes!
So if you’re running out of space in your overflowing inbox, or want to keep full resolution copies of thousands of photos, visit www.google.com/accounts/PurchaseStorage to see all the plans and to buy more storage.
If you’ve used all that, you can purchase another 20GB of storage for just $5 per year. That’s pretty cheap.
Of course, if you need more than 20GB, Google offers extra storage up to 16 terabytes. Here’s the cost breakdown:
20GB = $5/year
80GB = $20/year
200GB = $50/year
400GB = $100/year
1TB = $256/year
2TB = $512/year
4TB = $1,024/year
8TB = $2,048/year
16TB = $4,096/year
If you need 16TB of storage space for your email, you have some serious problems. Personally, I have been on Gmail since day 1. I have over 50,000 email conversations in my inbox, which only total 4.79GB. I haven’t deleted a single email since joining Gmail. My Gmail account is my single most valuable resource, and acts as a time machine if/when I need to reach back several years to see what was said about a certain subject.
The same storage increases apply to Picasa Web Albums, as well. Google says that 20GB is enough space for more than 10,000 full resolution pictures taken with a five megapixel camera. That would be quite a lot of images.
Anyone want to figure out how many full resolution pictures will fit in a 16TB drive? I don’t. Have fun with the math. (OK, it’s 8 million.)
| Gmail – 3.09 GB (0%) of 7.27 GB |
| Picasa Web Albums – 0.68 GB (0%) of 1 GB |
