How Much Space Does Google Have On Their Servers?

tariqrf

Apr 26 2005, 08:34 AM

i really wanna know. this is like serious.. if 512 users sign up for gmail, then they use up a terabyte of space... now its more than like to have around hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people who would've signed up for gmail..

now this is getting a bit unbeleivable.. if a million people sign up... 2 million gigabytes... now where thats like nearly 2000 terabytes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

enough to store all the information that every human ever spoke since the dawn of time(k..k.. i am exxxxagerating) , now how does google store this much space????

or is it just kidding... mayb they dont provide 2 gbs of space, they probably know that no person on earth can fill up 2 gigs... so actually the size might just be around 200 megs... so if you do use up 200 mb, the size increases to 300 .. etc etc.. just a marketing gimmick of sort... donnno. they might be true tho

anyone who knows anybody in google?? and know the real truth?? or do they use the next generation in storage technology or something?????

curious,
Tariq

lamode

Apr 26 2005, 08:45 AM

QUOTE

so actually the size might just be around 200 megs... so if you do use up 200 mb, the size increases to 300

yes that's what i thinking, but i sure google has more storage hardware than some other web hositng, therefore their can provide you 2GB web mail storage space without wait for increase your space from 200 mb to 300 mb. but i always wonder who and how do people get more that 100mb email? i only use about 5% or so in yahoo and hotmail, lets say if i add them up, still less than 5% for gmail. oh, maybe people use gmail as storage drive ....

Shackman

Apr 26 2005, 08:51 AM

Same here...I don't think google has that much of space...especially since the gmail inbox is still increasing now...

I think...well..suspect....that this might mark the end of gmail....remember gmail is still in Beta phrase? The devs could probably increase the inbox space to 3 gigs or something and say....we have decided to end gmail...or something...and if you want to continue on...you will have to pay a monthly or regular fee...just like any paid e-mail service.......

It would be sad...you know....especially since gmail is well received by most people...even my dad uses GMail...

Well...a guess.....but not necessary to be true...and I HOPE it does not turn out to be true...

-Shackman

tom169

Apr 26 2005, 04:29 PM

Its hard it belive i now but think about the bandwidth. Everyone searching on google and gmail. I bet they have got the fastest internet connection in the world. AND THATS FAST!

mizako

Apr 26 2005, 04:54 PM

Hi,
Sure they have a lot of storage size but i do not think that they have one giga for every gmail account. It is a marketing point that worked perfectly for them. About the point that maybe they change this free email system into a paid one. I heasitate about it. I think they get more money with google adsense in every email account than they will earn with paid account. I bet most of the people will migrate to another account. Remember they parse every email content (I also think that it is not moral at all) and they publish publicity according to it. it is more probable that they create a messsenger to expand their market.

tariqrf

Apr 27 2005, 04:01 AM

"lets say if i add them up, still less than 5% for gmail. oh, maybe people use gmail as storage drive .... " --

very true.... very very very true, i use only hotmail and I use it up about 1.5 something megabytes of 2,, i dont even see the necessity of a 1 GIGABYTE!! mail drive, even if they would've said 10 i would've been happy, becoz as far as i have seen, its one of the fastest online mail services i've seeen..!!

"remember gmail is still in Beta phrase? The devs could probably increase the inbox space to 3 gigs or something and say....we have decided to end gmail...or something...and if you want to continue on...you will have to pay a monthly or regular fee...just like any paid e-mail service......." --

no way, i dont think they can change this to a paid service, i totally think this is going to continue, but with some changes.. because this is like madness,, imagine the amount of money they could generate with adsense on EVERY page!!!!!!, they got something like 800,000 visitors a day or something, imagine, out of which, 100,000 use up adsense, and .. 0.50$ for each click,, thats like 50,000$.. gaaaaawd!!! and think how much they could generate with paid accounts,,, get it?

" I bet they have got the fastest internet connection in the world. AND THATS FAST! "

yeah!!! they have like unbeleivable traffic numbers on their sites, and as a result, yeah, they should run on super fast, super secure, super reliable servers... i have never seen google off the web for any down time!!!!!!!! and btw, google.com is SO SO SO SO SO LLLLIGHT , they can cut down bandwidth costs big time....

"It is a marketing point that worked perfectly for them."
marketing... thats wat these people are exxxxtreeeeemely good at... not that no other service is available, its just that they are extremely good marketers of extremely good products... unbeatable,,

and btw,, rediffmail offers 1 gig and is superfast,,, but they have got shiatloads of ads on their site,,, but the navigtaion through thte mail is simply outstanding, but not good enuff to beat gmail

Cheers,
Tariq

Odyssey

Apr 27 2005, 04:13 AM

its storage and bandwidth that makes you wonder how google offers their services. Its something amazing, but makes you curious at the same time. I would be intereted to know right from google how they manage it

Florisjuh

Apr 27 2005, 04:28 AM

Mmmh, maybe google secretely invented unlimitrd space harddrives for their servers?

But, I think its quite reasonable that they offer 2 gb... it would ocost arraund 2$ per accaunt (300 gb harddrive with 150 accaunts) fo space, and it doesnt create so much bandwith due to the smooth and fast interface, also I think it preloads the site so I think its only downloaded 1 time every visit

hulunes

Apr 27 2005, 05:59 AM

well,by looking at the counting box,we can know google give us gmail users more than 2G storage.but,in theory we could believe google offer so large space,just only by its harddisk,approximate spaceless.maybe we are puzzled on storage problem,because none has really finish up the whole space,which means no one knows if our gamil are 2.5G actually.

adriantc

Apr 27 2005, 06:21 AM

I think Gmail doesn't actualy have 2+GB for every account. They only have 100 or 200 mb because thay know nobody will use them. It's just for marketing. I don't even use more then 10mb...how can i get to 1 GB. Maybe if i won't delete my emails for the next 50 years. Now let's face it Microsoft will be gone by that time. No normal person could use that much space.
Returning to the problem of marketing... Everyone buys different things just because they are "a very, very, very little bit" better then the other. So when I see 2gb of space i would say "this is great! i'll make an account"...i'll never think "well i really don't need that much space"

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minimcmonkey

Jun 25 2008, 03:46 PM

I wouldnt have thought they have enough for every user using the maximum, thatis just the limit.
they will expect people to only use say.... 5 GB at the most probably. The limit is just there to make it look good!! (free email with so much storage looks really good)
By the way, its not 2TB limit, the limit is constantly increasing. There is a page, which show the limit at that exact time.
but it seems to go up a few bytes every second.

I dont suppose they have enough stprage for anyting like the amount of users.
But not very many people will come close to filling it up.

samlockart

Jun 25 2008, 12:46 PM

Google processes 20 petabytes a day, thats around 7 EXABYTES in 2007 (not storage btw). But from an extremely rough guesstimation, I'm thinking they have around the 150 petabyte range of storage. Since they have an estimate of 450,000 servers with two 160 gig drives!

Sam.

iGuest

Mar 26 2008, 07:09 PM

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How Much Space Does Google Have On Their Servers?

Replying to tariqrf
Google has petabytes of space (1 petabyte = 1,024 Terabytes) on lowcost computers in clusters of server farms around the world.

-reply by Jeremy

ajaykumarmeher

Jan 6 2007, 02:53 AM

QUOTE(tariqrf @ Apr 26 2005, 02:04 PM)

The space offered by google is not dedicated space...it is a shared space....So if 5 users sign-in then google dos not spend exactly 10 GB but it may initially alloocate 100 MB each and if they are crossing the limnit then again they keep on increasing the space.... it is never 2 GB dedicated to each users.

Bradley

May 16 2006, 08:44 PM

For some people, they use gmail as FTP by using lil programs such as gspace (for windows) and gdisk (for mac's). So as for 'not using a lot of space' many people are taking advantage of this. There are even firefox plugins out there that have these features built in to it

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