Google GMail to hit 3.5 GB Storage Space

[Mystic]

Anticipation is brewing for Google’s big April 1st (April Fools) announcement this year and since GMail was first launched on April 1st, some are expecting Google to make some big changes.
It appears however that Google has already made some tweaks to GMail, in the form of storage space.

Google has updated the GMail code to calculate 5 years into the future, stopping at 3.47 GB.
Niraj Sanghvi (http://www.nirajsanghvi.com/stories.php?sid=471&tid=25) made the find:

The Gmail login page updated to reflect new targets for the amount of space each account gets. The counter on that page is always counting up, and you can actually see what it is counting to.

With the new update, here’s the new space targets and how many days until that much space is hit by the counter on the page:

2800MB: Already reached
2835MB: In 18.22 days
2980MB: In 384 days
3125MB: In 749 days
3270MB: In 1114 days
3415MB: In 1479 days
3560MB: In 1845 days

The last target is 3560MB, which is about 3.47GB of space. But that’s over 60 months (5 years) away!
Source (http://www.searchenginejournal.com/?p=4526)

[Submerge]

Do people really need this kind of storage? For the years I've been using them I haven't come close to reaching the maximum. But I do delete uneeded emails.

[Mystic]

I am currently using only 232 MB in gmail. I guess people need them if they recieve a lot of attachments.
I have seen people asking for instructions to backup their old mails in tech forums, as they have run out of psace (for services like ym, hotmail and gmail).
Rediffmail is one reliable and old provider with unlimitd space www.rediffmail.com

[aloksingh]

Everything works on the average. Just like in shared hosting. Most people don't even use 10 mb of the email storage space. Some of them use about 1 GB. So, in the end it averages to a lot less, in fact.