Google doubles Gmail storage space to 2 GByte

On the first year anniversary of Google’s GMail web and search based email service, Google has announced that it will be expanding the mail storage space from 1 GB to more than 2 Gigabytes of capacity. Previously to last year’s launch of GMail, 1 GB of mail storage space was unheard of until Google broke the mold.

Users however reported inconsistent storage capacities of their email inboxes. At Tom’s Hardware, we have heard from mailboxes that were still sized at 1 GByte on April first and some users that had up to 1.5 GByte available. This editor’s personal inbox was sized at a rather arbitrary 1.37 GByte at the time this post was completed. However, the inbox size was growing at a pace of about 1 MByte per minute.

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