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More Gmail storage coming for all
October 12, 2007
Posted by Rob Siemborski, Gmail Engineer
When people ask me about my job, one of the common questions I get is, "Where does Gmail put all that mail?" I generally answer by pointing them to a web site like
this one
. While that's not exactly how it works, we do spend a lot of time working to make sure our users have
all the space they need
.
In April 2005, we started increasing Gmail storage as part of our
"Infinity+1" storage plan
. At that time, we realized we'd never reach infinity, but we promised to keep giving Gmail users more space as we were able. That said, a few of you are using Gmail so much that you're running out of space, so to make good on our promise, today we're announcing we are speeding up our
counter
and giving out more free storage.
And, just in case you are like my friend Miriam, whose sister sends minute to minute photo updates of her kids in
RAW format
, then we still have a
paid storage
program where you can get your fix, and we're giving you more space than before for the same price.
By the way, businesses, schools and organizations using
Google Apps
to get Gmail on their own custom addresses (like
Google does
for our @google.com accounts) will get a storage boost in the coming days, too.
Standard and Education Edition
storage (now at 2GB) will begin matching Gmail's counter, and
Premier Edition
users get a whopping 25 GB (up from 10 GB).
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