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Gmail’s infinite storage technique

Written by Colin Devroe on Friday, April 1st, 2005 at 4:41 am. Colin is the founder of ChanceCube and the Community Evangelist for Viddler.

Gmail, Google’s free email service, is extending their storage space per E-mail address to “infinite”? According to the “New Features” page from within Gmail, they are expanding their E-mail storage farm, and as they do, each of the E-mail addresses will receive new space as it becomes available.

What does this mean? It means that as the Gmail infrastructure grows, so does the amount of storage space available to each E-mail address holder grows. Genuis! As if we did not know that the Gmail team wasn’t already doing great things for E-mail.

No April fools joke

I currently hold 2 separate Gmail accounts, and each of them have well over 2Gb of storage space, when just yesterday they each only had a 1Gb limit respectively.

I suppose this will put an end to the “storage space wars” with other E-mail service providers, since the ceiling has now been removed.

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