Gmail upgrade to 2GB. April Fool's?

[Bluest Light]

Gmail have it announced that they are upgrading everyone's space to a massive 2GB.
Now, I don't think this is a joke as they've already done the whole 'Google Gulp' thing and I've checked my Gmail account and the free space is slowly rising.

At the moment I have 1344 MB of free space.

Opinions?

edit: 1345 MB

[Bloopo]

Well actually, according to the website, they are upgrading to infinity+1, so anything's likely...

[freddiestarfish]

You are currently using 8 MB (1%) of your 1347 MB.

It's going upupup


EDIT 1353Mb now

[SWE]

i'm only using 5% of 1000 mb...

[Bloopo]

1349mb for me.

[Bluest Light]

Well actually, according to the website, they are upgrading to infinity+1, so anything's likely...

Well, Gmail admit that's a joke at the bottom. But there's another link 'What's new' that states as of Gmail's first anniversary, it's being upgraded.

[Nuclear Spoon]

Well, I'd say how much I've got but the fucking thing WON'T FUCKING LET ME ACCES THE FUCKING GMAIL!!!!!!!

[Dildobaggins]

Thats your computar then. Gmail be working fine.

Im using 5% of 1349mb.

[Lewiji]

You are currently using 104 MB (8%) of your 1363 MB.

I don't think it's a joke. The infinity+1 is but the upgrade is in "new features" :D

[Bloopo]

Well, I'd say how much I've got but the fucking thing WON'T FUCKING LET ME ACCES THE FUCKING GMAIL!!!!!!!

Instead of complaining left right and centre, why don't you take steps to FIX IT.

[Bluest Light]

39 MB (3%) of your 1368 MB.

I'm winnering.

[Cjw]

You are currently using 36 MB (3%) of your 1370 MB

This is madness..where do they get the space from?!

[Flack]

Check out the sign in page, it has lots of moving numbers.

Starting to think it's an april fools =\

[StupidCatOfDoom]

You are currently using 36 MB (3%) of your 1370 MB

This is madness..where do they get the space from?!

Those swanky new 500gb HDD everyone is talking about...they might/could/do have them and they probably have 4 500gb hard drives per pc...that's 2tb

6 MB (0%) of your 1373 MB

[NarkAgent]

1Mb of 1378 :D

[sack the chimp]

If I could actually remember my G-mail account name this might all be of some use to me....

[fifi_madgirl]

You are currently using 1 MB (0%) of your 1374 MB. :S

[NarkAgent]

I don't think it's a joke. I think they genuinely are doing it.

[Bluest Light]

Yup, they are.

edit:39 MB (3%) of your 1400 MB.

wooyay

[Mystical Parrot]

You are currently using 22 MB (2%) of your 1401 MB.


woo 2gb, totally useless amount of space!

[Dr_nwa]

You are currently using 50 MB (4%) of your 1402 MB.
you suck MP.

[Flack]

You are currently using 366 MB (26%) of your 1406 MB.

What do I win?

[Dr_nwa]

fuck all.
You are currently using 50 MB (4%) of your 1410 MB.

[Phreeck]

You are currently using 23 MB (2%) of your 1412 MB.

[StupidCatOfDoom]

You are currently using 139 TB (0%) of your ¥300000. Happy punch! All your face are belong to dog my. Personal greet StupidCatOfDoom to!

O_o another April's Fool Joke?
Oh god...they're spyyyyiiinggg on me, perhaps the name "StupidCatOfDoom" jumped out at them :P

[Lewiji]

Assume:

Google have 500 dedicated machines for Gmail.

They each have a RAID setup of 2tb of space.

An account is 2gb. That's 1000 accounts per machine (assuming they all fill up)

So on all the machines, that's 500,000 accounts.

Seeing as Google is one of the most successful businesses on the internet, they probably have a lot more, and let's face it, how many people actually fill the accounts?

Those swanky new 500gb HDD everyone is talking about...they might/could/do have them and they probably have 4 500gb hard drives per pc...that's 2tb

6 MB (0%) of your 1373 MB

I doubt it, those are DESKTOP drives, server drives are fecking huge

[piemastermike]

You are currently using 0 MB (0%) of your 1441 MB.

edit: 1442

edit: 1443

edit: 1444mb

[JonathanEx]

You are currently using 1 MB (0%) of your 1447 MB.
I wanted 1337MB :<

[Cheechy]

If you guys are going to count upto 2000 I will restrict your postings to the cheesebin only.

[StupidCatOfDoom]

But can we count to 2000 in the Cheesebin? I'll make a JavaScript Script to do it for me.

[JonathanEx]

Fine, I was just stating that I seemed to have more than anyone else said.

Can anyone guess why they're slowly getting larger? I'm betting it's as they're gradually upgrading accounts to make sure they don't overload servers with too much of a change at once.

[Mystical Parrot]

na it would be alot easier to just change it, they're doing it for style or something

[budrick]

I doubt it, those are DESKTOP drives, server drives are fecking huge

It's more that server drives are fast and expensive. They'll most likely have high spin rates for fast access times, and use high-speed SCSI interfaces.

What I WOULD like to know is what form of RAID they're using. I'd hate to think they're using the form that combines multiple hard drives into a single logical volume.

[wyrd_fish]

there prolly spanned for backups and faster access

as for gmail, i pop mine anyway so it's of little conciquence to me

[Phreeck]

You are currently using 23 MB (1%) of your 1585 MB.

[Empty Pie Dish]

You are currently using 6 MB (0%) of your 1593 MB.

[Oooh Yeah]

no joke, the information drink is obviously april fools but it makes sense.

hotmail thought gmail was an april fools joke. but it turned out to be real and they got SCARED.

makes sense to double it on the aniversary, hell i hope it goes to 3gb to wipe it in hotmails face next year.
i am staying with gmail for life now, that kind of space is brilliant service. they deserve to get a lot of nice new customers with the service they provide.
you still have to remember this is just storage. at the end of the day less than a few % of customers will use this full 2gb. i am using 6mb and i have hundreds of e-mails so far.

i pop mine too, but it's nice to have a backup if the mac ever dies or gets nabbed

[DutchDemon]

So much space, so little usage.. I think I'm gonna mail warcraft3 to myself, and install it at school.

[Timmeh]

It's pretty weird how gmail are doing it, I'm now on You are currently using 45 MB (3%) of your 1665 MB. They're increasing it MB by MB... hmm.

[eleanor]

Probably so it takes a nice long time so that we all get the chance to tell Hotmail-using suckers of our superiority :p

[JonathanEx]

Uhh, shouldn't we only get 2000mb? I've kinda got... 2013mb.

Also, I had a theory. It's set to increase periodicly over a 24 hour period (Gmail's anniversary) in a certain time zone.
...or something.

[Lewiji]

You are currently using 104 MB (5%) of your 2014 MB

:eek:

I can't see it going further...maybe it's a bug xD

Our plan is to continue growing your storage beyond 2GBs by giving you more space as we are able

Maybe it's been going up slowly because it is calculating how much it can give us...

[Bloopo]

Heh, I only just noticed that the counter on the main page was counting the MBs...

We've gotta find out how to use all of this space if they decide to take it away :p

[JonathanEx]

You are currently using 104 MB (5%) of your 2014 MB

:eek:

I can't see it going further...

I can, 2022 MB.
Righto, I'm off to start filling this up.

[Bluest Light]

Holy crap.
Bit isn't a GB more then 1000MB anyway?

Oh well, yahoo for pointless amounts of space.

[Eridanus]

2050 and it's still rising, this is incredible.

[Nuclear Spoon]

Yeah, I just checked mine as well.
2050:shock:

[Eridanus]

If you log out from your inbox and check the site log-in page, it tells you how much there is, and it's slowly rising.

[Lewiji]

It seems to have frozen at 2050...Although the front page is still rising, but at 0.0001 mb a second.

[Bloopo]

I'm not complaining about 2050...

I was never going to use 1gig, it was just a gimmick. That worked terribly well.

[Phreeck]

2050 MB.

Woo.

[RobW]

Still 2050...

[CoX]

Yep, i've got 2050MB too. Not that i'll ever use it.

[Cloud]

Ditto to what CoX said

[fifi_madgirl]

G is for growth
Storage is an important part of email, but that doesn't mean you should have to worry about it. To celebrate our one-year birthday, we're giving everyone one more gigabyte. But why stop the party there? Our plan is to continue growing your storage beyond 2GBs by giving you more space as we are able. We know that email will only become more important in people's lives, and we want Gmail to keep up with our users and their needs. From Gmail, you can expect more

.... yay :p

[Oodles]

You are currently using 0 MB (0%) of your 2051 MB. Oh pwn'd. I have 1 more MB thingy than you.

[Comrade Smith]

this is bloody amazing.we could ruin them if we used the space

[Bluest Light]

You are currently using 39 MB (2%) of your 2051 MB

Here's a conundrum. Say Gmail space reaches about 3GB and then runs out of free free space (if that makes sense,) when more users join up or are invited, would our space go down?

[Mystical Parrot]

i dont think google has to worry about being able to afford the space, its worth a massive amount of money and as it said when it started gmail it only costs $2 per gb to run an account. a lot less than they make in advertising

[Paradigm^]

This is amazing.

What would happen if we all used our space, and used all our invites too - and then those people used all their space, too?

I think this has gotten beyond being a service to the community and become plain showing off :p

[Mystical Parrot]

you say it like its a bad thing :)

it is great publicity, will get people wanting gmail and will hopefully force other free email providers to raise their mailbox sizes

[Schmental]

723mb of 2051mb :D

[freddiestarfish]

723mb of 2051mb :D

Now that's alot of pron.

[Schmental]

its mainly college work, music etc, no porn

[pebble_rebel]

lier...

[Wahoo]

You are currently using 2051 MB (100%) of your 2051 MB.

:S

[Fade Away]

You are currently using 4 MB (0%) of your 2052 MB.

Wow this is awesome :D

[Edit] - You are currently using 17 MB (1%) of your 2052 MB. (That's four songs! I remember I couldn't even send one with homtail :D )

[as1232004]

Think about it. Not many people use more than 50mb of email space, most use under 10mb so they don't need as much hard disk space as you would think.
I am still wondering why you still need an invite to open an account, everybody can ask for an invite from from someone in a chat room or forum, I have given out hundreds so I think now that they should open it up to more people.
p.s. if anybody still needs an invite send me an email to gmailplease@a-sharpe.co.uk

[Anticheese]

When I first saw the rapidly rising numbers I too thought it was a joke, But I think now they are serious.

I also think that they are doing this to smite hotmails rankings too. Gmail accounts can also be gotten without doing anything now if you visit bytetest.com

This is truely a great day for the internet,

Praise Gmail! :notworthy

[Schmental]

i have 2053 mb now,

and im not a lier

[NarkAgent]

Apparently, they only allocate about 20Mb for every user as the compression on the server is so good, that's all they need to compress 2Gb of text.

[Schmental]

id like to see all my musics i made be compressed to 20mb lol

[Lewiji]

Think about it. Not many people use more than 50mb of email space, most use under 10mb so they don't need as much hard disk space as you would think.
I am still wondering why you still need an invite to open an account, everybody can ask for an invite from from someone in a chat room or forum, I have given out hundreds so I think now that they should open it up to more people.
p.s. if anybody still needs an invite send me an email to gmailplease@a-sharpe.co.uk

Publicity.

Instead of saying, here's our email service please sign up, they've made it exclusive-however it is very very easy to find an invite. It makes people want an account rather than just think about getting an account, while still having availability.

[Paradigm^]

Instead of saying, here's our email service please sign up, they've made it exclusive-however it is very very easy to find an invite. It makes people want an account rather than just think about getting an account, while still having availability.
QFT.

Will they ever release it from beta? Like Lewiji said - you can get your hands on an account easy as piss - but only if you want one. It stops the AOL users getting it.

[RobW]

2054 Mb.

I don't get songs from other people via email, but I have 1.6GB in My Music...

[Oooh Yeah]

QFT.

Will they ever release it from beta? Like Lewiji said - you can get your hands on an account easy as piss - but only if you want one. It stops the AOL users getting it.

true, it does still keep a clean server. if you want it you'll use it, if you get it just for the sake of it you're just clogging up their server.. it saves them money from advertising too. many companies are doing viral advertising campaigns now.. BMW and VW have

i doubt it will get released for 'public sign up' but the e-client itself may get released from beta when it's polished.

[monkrocker]

You are currently using 12 MB (1%) of your 2071 MB

Its still going up ?!

[hamsternator]

I'm using 2% of 2070.
w00t!

[Chassisbot]

0 megabytes: 0%

[Dude]

You are currently using 54 MB (3%) of your 2071 MB.

[hamsternator]

I'm currently using 1% of 2074.
Do I win?

[Timmeh]

OK everyone, I think we've conclueded it's not stopping, any chance of not spamming the hell out of this thread with how much storage you have anymore?

[Garry2]

Yeah, Whyppy's right.

It's not like I am currently using 88 MB (4%) of my 2074 MB.

OMG!!!!!111