David Berube’s OLD Blog

Yahoo just announced that it was upping it’s email capacity for users to unlimited. That means that you never will have to delete an email message of any size ever again. Competitor’s Google (Gmail) currently is giving away 2.83GB and Microsoft (Live Hotmail) gives away 2GB.

There is some talk around the blogosphere that Gmail may follow suit, but I don’t think they can. Many people use Gmail to store files, backups and other things. Many also use it as a 2nd drive with GMail Drive shell extension. I don’t know of any similar use on Yahoo mail as of now, but I can definitely see it on the horizon now that they’re giving away all the storage you can eat.

So if Google were to give away unlimited email storage they would be an influx of files uploaded that would, in my opinion, triple the total storage used on Gmail’s system overnight. I currently use Gmail, and have since it was released years ago, and I’m very satisfied with the capacity of my account.

For email purposes I see no reason for unlimited storage at this point. Since getting my first email on Gmail in 2004, and NEVER deleting an email, I’ve only used up 794 MB (28%) of my 2.833 GB limit.

The day will come when I reach my Gmail limit, and I think Google should give out more space on a user to user basis. When I get to the limit they should automatically adjust my account to give me more space, that is if their system detects and decides that I’m not using Gmail as a secondary hard drive.

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