When Gmail launched five years ago, it came with a gigabyte of storage space. A gigabyte doesn’t seem like very much any more, and now every Gmail account comes with more than seven gigs of space (and growing). Still, some people manage to use up all of this (that’s a lot of email…), so for over two years we’ve offered the option to purchase even more storage. This extra storage acts as an overflow that you only start using when you reach the limit of your free storage, and is shared for use between Gmail and Picasa Web Albums. Picasa has always come with a gigabyte of free storage to share photos, but people need even more storage as they start taking more pictures and moving full resolution backups of their photo collection into the cloud.
While storage costs have been dropping naturally, we’ve also been working hard to improve our infrastructure to reduce costs even further. Today, we’re dramatically lowering our prices to make extra storage more affordable. You can now buy 20 GB for only $5 a year, twice as much storage for a quarter of the old price, and enough space for more than 10,000 full resolution pictures taken with a five megapixel camera. And if you need more than 20 GB, you can purchase up to 16 terabytes!
So if you’re running out of space in your overflowing inbox, or want to keep full resolution copies of thousands of photos, visit www.google.com/accounts/PurchaseStorage to see all the plans and to buy more storage.
From: The Gmail Blog
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Yes, extra storage is offered at affordable rates.
However, when the extra storage purchased does not actually show up on your account and when it seems impossible to reach someone at Google who will help resolve the situation, frustration is huge.
If anyone knows how I can get Google to respond to this issue — I’d be most appreciative.
Thanks.
Yes, extra storage is offered at affordable rates.
However, when the extra storage purchased does not actually show up on your account and when it seems impossible to reach someone at Google who will help resolve the situation, frustration is huge.
If anyone knows how I can get Google to respond to this issue — I’d be most appreciative
ASSS:KEZIA
Dear Sir,
I want to consume more space in my GMAIL a/c , currently I am using maximum 7455mb .
Please give me the annual cost details chart and payee address asap .
Seeking your kind co operation .
Regards,
Sankar Paul
Dear Sir,
We are managing 1 domain in Google with e-mails.
I’m tring to fing how can I buy more storage for 1 account – all my mails to the support team was no answered.
Regards,
Aharon
I found your website searching whether Gmail storage is, on a paid basis, increase-able.
Good to hear it is.
Since it looks like you know a fair bit about Googley stuff, mind if I ask you…
I have my web site on a godaddy server. I’m looking for a place to back it up to. Can I back up to a Google server?
It would be handy to back up a bunch of other things too — some files too big to email to myself.
I googled this, but didn’t find anything.
Cheers