Google Offers Paid Additional Storage for GMail and Picassa
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For those people who almost 3GB of online storage isn’t enough, Google has launched a new paid service to let you beef up your GMail and Picassa quota. The plans are as follows:
6GB for $20/year
25GB for $75/year
100GB for $250/year
250GB for $500/year
The additional storage that you buy can be spread across all your Google services. Google notes that users will not receive the upgrade instantly, and may take the classic “up to 24 hours” for it to appear. Also, this storage will be extra to the free storage you already have through different Google services.
I’m rather shocked that Google has decided to charge for the extra storage considering how Yahoo, the worlds largest email provider, went unlimited. Will you buy the extra storage? What is your GMail usage?
Probably not, I use Gmail a lot, but I store files elsewhere. Besides, connect a pop client, suck back everything you need, delete what you don’t and send it back for retrieval later… This is a solution for the very rich and very lazy.
You are currently using 2314 MB (80%) of your 2887 MB.
that’s after one spring cleaning session before which I was left wondering why the Gmail logger plugin for Trillian stopped uploading my conversation logs…
I’ve deleted all the videos and mp3s from my inbox, and I’m back to almost 2.5 GB… I will probably purchase extra space at 20$/y than waste days trying to clean it up
You are currently using 93 MB (3%) of your 2887 MB.
I don’t think this is really for me..
You are currently using 1157 MB (40%) of your 2887 MB.
Not alot, and I can pretty much get rid of alot of emails, since most of them are mailing lists (spam).
Yahoo is offering unlimited though. ;)
The best thing about GMail is the threading system, I can’t get enough of it.