Google Gmail Account Sizes Are Growing

Bob Russell · 04-25-2005, 07:37 PM

I've accidently stumbled upon a fun fact about Google's gmail site... they have a rolling counter of the size of email account storage, and it's growing continuously. Here's the latest quote from the front page... (If you are a registered user, you'll need to log out first to see it.)

Quote:

[size=-1]2131.430241 megabytes (and counting) of free storage so you'll never need to delete another message.[/size]

It shows 2131 at the bottom of my inbox page also, so it seems that Google is growing the account storage allocations in some kind of slow incremental fashion. I like it!

hacker · 04-25-2005, 11:59 PM

What you're seeing no-doubt, is their algorithm calculating how much space is saved by consolidating pointers to duplicate messages/files/material stored on their shards. Its all basically a shared pool of free space that anyone has available to them... interesting idea though, and it gives me an idea for a project I've been working on. </stealthmode>

Chaos · 04-26-2005, 04:14 PM

Just as a quick note, that counter's been running since April 1st continuously. It ran up a gig on Apr. 1st, and slowly ever since.

cbarnett · 04-30-2005, 02:07 AM

It's actually growing faster than the email I keep at the moment, so if it continues, I may never run out of space, lol

Craig.

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04-25-2005, 11:59 PM	#2
hacker Technology Mercenary Posts: 617 Karma: 2561 Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: East Lyme, CT Device: Direct Neural Implant	What you're seeing no-doubt, is their algorithm calculating how much space is saved by consolidating pointers to duplicate messages/files/material stored on their shards. Its all basically a shared pool of free space that anyone has available to them... interesting idea though, and it gives me an idea for a project I've been working on. </stealthmode>

04-26-2005, 04:14 PM	#3
Chaos Evangelist Posts: 418 Karma: 281 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Canada Device: Assorted older devices	Just as a quick note, that counter's been running since April 1st continuously. It ran up a gig on Apr. 1st, and slowly ever since.

04-30-2005, 02:07 AM	#4
cbarnett MR prodigal son Posts: 1,085 Karma: 1083739 Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Aura H2O	It's actually growing faster than the email I keep at the moment, so if it continues, I may never run out of space, lol Craig.

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