GMail - Is 1 Gig really enough?

When GMail first came out many people(including yours truly) were blown away. Many thought it was an april fool's joke(GMail came out on April on 1st), only to discover that it was true. One GIG of email storage - unbelievable !

But is 1 GIG really enough ? I've been using GMail for a little over 5 months and I've already used up more than 100MB. It appears to me that our storage demands are growing at an ever increasing rate. At first we were sending plain text, now we are sending digital pictures(whose size increases as MegaPixels on the cameras continue to increase as well), and soon we will probably send Videos. Additionally, many people(including myself) started using GMail for back-up and storage purposes.

So no, 1 GIG is clearly not enough. At least not in the long run.

Comments

Diego Matute said…
Yeah I agree. But do you think it will be just 'mail' driven servers using this additional space, or will it be generic SANs hosting your own personal space online with different ways to access it.
Ideally, (as I was telling you earlier), all the big players in the industry will come together and come up with a standard for a distributed filesystem. Then, you'd be able to buy storage space, and various online applications(such as e-mail) would be able to use that storage as they deem necessary.

There are various problems with this approach of course, which make it nearly impossible to implement at the moment. But as I said, that would be an ideal scenario.

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