Google Ups Its Storage Size For A Fee

August 12, 2007

Want to increase your Gmail or Picasa storage size? Google has just announced that it will offer additional online storage for people who want to store larger images, docs, music, and video files. The storage can be used for various Google applications like Picasa, Gmail, and Google Docs and Spreadsheets. Current Google users get roughly 3GB of free storage with their Gmail and 1GB with Picasa. Twenty bucks a year for 6 extra gigs is fairly reasonable, considering you'll have over 10GB in total to play around with.

6 GB $20/year

25 GB $75/year

100 GB $250/year

250 GB $500/year

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3 years 50 weeks

Why doesnt the US govt pay for the space i mean they are paying for everything else? And google is Amenrcano so if it goes bust then the govt will pay our subscriptions for sure?

cleegiants 5 years 40 weeks

i really wish we didn't have to pay for storage - no matter how "cheap" it is. gmail's storage of almost 3GB is certainly more than enough for email storage, but there needs to be a better solution for media files.

shafiii 5 years 40 weeks

i think having to pay for it is ridiculous. i have enough storage and would rather use a usb on wihch i can put other things on rather han having one limited to google/picasa items.

katie10 5 years 40 weeks

Hmmm... I've got 2887 MB of storage and I'm only using 129 MB. So, I don't think I'll need to be upgrading. Plus, I'd rather just get the Pro version of Flickr if I ever needed to put that many pictures online. I know that it's nothing even close to the same thing as Picasa, but I like Flickr better. Also, $100 for .mac gets you, well... .mac. You're not just paying for photo storage.

ineska 5 years 40 weeks

*panics* my Gmail is only 3 GB :'(

starofsorrow 5 years 40 weeks

Hm. Not too shabby...thought I wouldn't pay to use it either!

tdamji 5 years 40 weeks

sounds a bit pricey for that much storage, but then .mac is $100 for 10gb...so i dunno.

oli02 5 years 40 weeks

That must be a typo, because yeah, I definitely don't have 4GB in my account! Not that I would ever even use that much since I'm currently only at 8% of usage, but still... :)

c0rkie 5 years 40 weeks

it saids i have 2887 MB in my gmail... :( where did you come up with 4 gig?

c0rkie 5 years 40 weeks

boo! price for everything :( i dont need more than one gig anyway.

ziggy 5 years 40 weeks

Their prices are ridiculous for photo storage with no information about how secure things really are. I use Smugmug - they back up your pics in multiple locations and you don't lose the rights or give away any rights when you use them (unlike shutterfly, ofoto, etc, etc). It's unlimited for less than Google and there's no shortage of easy integration upload tools. :D

marley11 5 years 40 weeks

its a good idea, but personally i don't mind having multiple USBs or just paying money to get a USB with a big storage size. idk. maybe i'm paranoid with the idea that someone can hack into my google account...

marley11 5 years 40 weeks

its a good idea, but personallyi don't mind having multiple USBsor just paying money to get aUSB with a big storage size. idk.maybe i'm paranoid with the ideathat someone can hack into my google account...

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