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lame Google storage allocation

2007-03-23 by Mark Fontana

Todd Muncy wrote:

> In the meantime, 100MB of storage, multiple language support, not
> having to supply my password every 3 hours, etc. is winning me over.


Anyone besides me feel that 100MB is an incredibly wimpy amount of
storage considering the 2+ GB of storage Google claims to offer for each
of their email accounts?

As soon as someone uploads that 55 MB ZIP of MIDI files discussed last 
week, half the space will already be consumed.

It would be nice to post some MP3s of (non-copyrighted) piano+audio
tracks as well, and at 3-4 MB a pop, that will eat up the remaining
space very quickly.

Considering that group storage is a shared resource, Google ought to be
generous with space for it.  Content important enough to post for group
consumption would seemingly be more valuable for Google to scan and
index than the day-to-day blah of people's individual emails.

I'm not complaining about the Google move, by the way, just remarking on
the low storage quota.  At the very least, it ought to scale with the
size of the group.  (OK, I'm done preaching to the choir...)

Mark Fontana

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