I was browsing through some old posts on the GMail blog, and stumbled onto one that I must have missed awhile back: Extra Storage for Less! If you’re one of the email pack-rats out there, or have lots of pictures that you would like to share via the Picasa site, then Google’s new pricing scheme should make you super-happy! The new pricing scheme allows you to purchase up to 2 TB (that’s Terabytes) of storage in 20 GB increments, with each 20GB increment costing $5 each per year. So basically, if you outgrow your current Gmail or Picasa limit, you can pay $5/year to add 20GB which can be shared between both Google products.
Interestingly enough, rumors have been floating around about this possibly morphing into an Online Backup solution from Google. The purported “GDrive” would provide functionality that would at least compete with the likes of Mozy, iDrive, and BackBlaze. ZDNet has an interesting article about how the Google GDrive is not a rumor.
Personally, I keep my email pretty cleaned up and am using less than 1% of my GMail storage limit (although I use 50% of my Picasa limit). How much space are you currently using for your Gmail? You can find this out by scrolling to the bottom of your inbox.
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