Gmail, How?

Peacemaker · 2006-06-12, 06:21 AM

This is prolly a question more suited for Marsman, Gryphon, or maybe hamma. Possibly a few others... I was just looking at my gmail account and I noticed the available space is 2,733 Mb of space. Thats 2.7 gigs. For a FREE email account. Logic dictates that if I were to use this 2.7 gigs that it, and any smaller amount of data that I have in my account, is stored SOMEWHERE on a hard drive. My question is, who is paying for the hard drives? That would be one hell of big computer room. So whats the low down? Does google HQ house all of my mail data? Or is it somehow floating in a void... hows this work and is still free... SOMEONE is losing alot of money for this.

Mag-Mower · 2006-06-12, 07:08 AM

Google gets I think 7 cents per search. and judging from my searches in the past month, they have made $70 bucks from me... But dont ask me where that 7 cents come from...

Hamma · 2006-06-12, 08:02 AM

Well my guess is you don't actually HAVE 2gb sitting there empty somewhere waiting for you. I bet they have a pretty advanced backend that appropriatly assigns HD space on a variety of servers to its users up to 2 gb.

Giovanni · 2006-06-12, 10:26 AM

Like Mag said... they get some odd 7 cents per search, on top of people paying to have google adds wich are on alot of site! ALOT! So they must have a big ass server I'm guessing.

Hamma · 2006-06-12, 10:27 AM

Google has thousands of servers

Giovanni · 2006-06-12, 10:49 AM

Indeed.

Rbstr · 2006-06-12, 01:28 PM

And don't forget, everything is probably backed up in pairity somewhere aswell.

Man that's a fuckton of data. Considering the attachments and stuff that can go with it.

Peacemaker · 2006-06-12, 03:03 PM

yes it is.

Electrofreak · 2006-06-13, 04:55 AM

It's because google is as rich as shit.

That and not everybody is using their whole 2.7 gigs. Most people are only using a few meg.

I wonder if the whole Gmail hard drive thing got shut down yet? There was an app that basically let you store files via Gmail, I would expect google did something to stop that.

Rbstr · 2006-06-13, 12:25 PM

It seems to me google's the kind of company wouldn't care what you did(as long as it wasn't that illegal) with your 2.7gigs.

Anyway the tool still works; found here

Peacemaker · 2006-06-13, 03:53 PM

Electrofreak · 2006-06-13, 06:32 PM

I don't think http://It still works(with the newest version of the program) is a valid link rob...

Hamma · 2006-06-13, 07:37 PM

Doh!

Rbstr · 2006-06-14, 09:54 PM

bah, sorry I was out of town here:

http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm