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Originally posted by chungster
but you can get 1tb instead of just 40gb

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it's not true besides, like you would ever need 1TB just for your e-mails .

exactly! and as i said before i don't think we need this much space!

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Originally posted by Kryptonate
it's not true  besides, like you would ever need 1TB just for your e-mails .

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Unless they want to encourage internet piracy. You could send ripped DVD's across e-mail with no problems and have a nice little place to store it for other people to pick up...at the same time Google’s 1GB does the same

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Originally posted by gigablade77
Very few SUPER computers have 1 tb, NOT ONE! Home PC could have 1 TB

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Newsservers, like the one i use to download my uhm... "stuff" has 65TB, some even more. Big companies have databases of sometimes more then a TB too. It doesn't take a super computer, just a big server.

And i know people who have 1TB or more on there home PC (they download a lot), just 4 drives of 250GB and you're there.

AtomChips made an optical storage HDD that could store over 1TB by quite a bit! I'm a bit worried how Gmail plan to cope with the amount of people who are going to sign up and use a ton of space...

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Originally posted by MenthiX
And i know people who have 1TB or more on there home PC (they download a lot), just 4 drives of 250GB and you're there.

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thats crazy they must download ALOT!!
my com (well family com) is a crappy P3 with only 30 GB and only half of it is used...sort of cos my dad doesnt allow anyone to download music or movies etc.

lol, unlucky BiZaRrE!

Within a year, google are gonna need several 1 petabyte storage computers!

btw, 1TB is actually 1024GB, not very relevant when you talk about MB or kB, but 24 GB makes a slight difference

My dad relies heavily on email for his work, he will exchange several documents a day and in about 5 years we still haven't reached 1GB   I think the 1GB thing is pretty superficial... i reckon what they're really thinking is "the average account will reach X megabytes and we're prepared to give way over that".  1GB is just a way of saying they'll give you whatever you need... so they probably won't set aside 1gb for every account they have.

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Originally posted by fluffy_lobster
so they probably won't set aside 1gb for every account they have.

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Yeah if they did that things would get out of hand. They'll probably be some legal thing that if you have over 200mb (for example) they'll regard your activity as suspicious (just to scare off n00bs)