Well this was reported in the news already by Gsurface Here, but just wanted to see what people thought, think this will be an april fools joke, or like last year with gmail, it accually be real?

I think they can offer 5GB. There is no way anyone is even going to get close to the 1GB mark let alone 2.

Just was checking my Gmail and got this 26mb extra the next time I refreshed the page
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Edit* now 28mb!

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Edit* 1030mb.... this is taking to long... wonder if it will accually make it to 2000mb

I got 1030MB.

Ya weird! Mine is saying 1041mb


Oh well.

I am at 1041 MB ..30 minutes past midnight.. maybe by the morning it will get to 2 GB !!!

Google is sure full of surprises. They sure know how to throw a party .

It will go at about 1mb every one or 2 mins till 2000.... lets hope... i will be asleep by then.. someone else can report when its reaches 2000mb lol

yeah Google really rocks... so many products they come up with lately.. and they keep upgrading them....

one of the last ones was: http://maps.google.com/

i read an article of a guy who filled his gmail. the attatchment whore.


like the google ride finder. crazy stuff.

Yea I have a few as drives on my system also they fill up fast that way too

what is the point in having that much email storage. No one is going to use 1GB let alone 2.

Take a look at GMail's Homepage



GMail source: http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/about_whatsnew.html

Welcome to Flexbeta Mark. Enjoy your stay.

Just a word of advice, please dont create a second topic It makes me have to do some work around here

Anyways....

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I am sooo sorry, I just wanted to tell FlexBeta about this exciting news with GMail before anyone else! And thank you for welcoming me to the forums!

Its all good, its an easy fix. And I wonder exactly how high they will go.

Mine is 1106

Looks like they want to go to Infinity + 1. Hmm ... Infinity?? This is just shear amazment to me, I mean they have tons of users and they want to increase the quotas to 2GB and possibly even beyond that limit!

1120here. btw: IT´S MY BIRTHDAY!!!

2GB or + I dont think I will ever use 1GB

Did some quick math here!

approx: .578MB/minute = approx: 1.156MB/2 minutes according to ticker on homepage
so lets say its 1MB / 2 minutes
and its an upgrade of 1024MB / which should be approx 2048 minutes
2048 minutes is approx 34.13 hrs to upgrade from 1Gb to 2GB at the speed of the GMail Home page counter.

At the moment, its up to approx 1116.000MB which means its been upgraded by 92MBs from 1024MB.
92MBs at 184 [2 minutes per MB] means its been running fro approx 3.06 hrs which close to 12.00AM EST.

Now at 1116MB we need 932MB at 1864 minutes to get to 2048
So at this point at 1116MB, we will get to 2048MB in 1864/60 = approx 31 hrs.

I could be right or way way off! Would appreciate it if someone can check my bad math skills.

hope this aint a april fools joke

I am at 1200mb roughly, this is cool!

Google Gulp is and april fools joke however lol, http://www.google.ca/googlegulp/ also on the homepage I believe. Good one google!

Also... From google

Just Launched!

G is for growth
Storage is an important part of email, but that doesn't mean you should have to worry about it. To celebrate our one-year birthday, we're giving everyone one more gigabyte. But why stop the party there? Our plan is to continue growing your storage beyond 2GBs by giving you more space as we are able. We know that email will only become more important in people's lives, and we want Gmail to keep up with our users and their needs. From Gmail, you can expect more.

http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/about_whatsnew.html

The odds are that they are trying to reach 2GB storage for everyone.....but to me it seems ridculous....who is going to use up 2GB of space?? lol it really doesn't matter to me anyway because i dont have gmail, i dont see the need for it

Well even if they do decided to offer more, because believe me when I say they more than enough space, they even offered to help out wikipedia with space lol

ATM I got 1256 MB's (12% used)

Anyone elses gmail invites been renewed to 50?

1265mb

Now that you mention it... yes, all of'em suddenly have 50 invites

Well MSN has already been offering 2GB hotmail to it's premium members. Like I said not free but when I was beta testing for the new MSN explorer they gave all testers like 8 months of free MSN premium, checked hotmail one day and 2000MB of storage.

the average user won't use 2 gigs, or even 1 gig, but some people fill their boxes.

my invites refill every day. So far i've used 33 megs. for the length of time Gmail assumes you will own a gmail box, i see 2 gigs as realistic for everybody considering you have everybody from attatchment whores to those who just write.

I have used 80 MB , i have 1421 MB now.

I'll take as much space as they want to give me Thats more gDrive's for me

I actually use the gmail pop3 to download the messeges so I'm never going to need all that storage but it's nice to know you've got a 2GB inbox

already into my second gig

The big question is if this will stop at 2000MB ?

what would be funny is if it reset itself to 1gb at midnight, leaving people who passed their limits stranded with negative room

Has any one noticed that whatever this thing says is the amount of free space we have in our box?

Probably will stop at 2000MB for the moment. but I have a feeling they may increase it again in a few months.

They should offer a Yottabyte. With a Terabyte attactments.

I have been hearing reports that the increase may start as soon as a few days... they may just keep running up the GBs till they max out room on the servers so everyone may get 2256Mb for example lol

if you goto gmail.com and your not signed into gmail it has a timer that adds up. Well if you change your clock on your PC to the 2nd or higher it stops at 2GBs. So i think that they are going to stop at 2GBs. They might go higher but not now there now.

You are currently using 8 MB (1%) of your 1543 MB Happy b day gmail

Currently Uploading Oceans 12 to one of my gmail accounts lol tons 10mb .rar parts lol want to see if i can fill up the full 2gbs

Your uploading a priated movie that isnt even out on DVD yet to gmail. Now that takes some balls.

Hell yes! i wouldnt do that! well not to often anyways!

MartMoz

I live in canada remember lol, and its for personal use only lol...just testing gmail lol

I dont think the makers of Oceans 12 will care to much about that...lol

They will try and make it look like your "sharing" the movie!