Google have quietly (as ever) introduced a pay for extra storage facility on GMail.

I’ve come close to stop using Gmail over the last 6 months or so, after having heavily used it on a daily basis for over two years. It’s has all of my emails for my numerous accounts going through it.

What was getting me to change my dependency? A lack of storage - something unimaginable when it was first launched back in 2004 with a Gig of storage and the “Never Throw an email away again” line.

Despite a crank up to 2GB in April 2005, and a continued growth of storage, byte by byte during the day - it just hasn’t been enough.

I’ve been on 90%+ capacity for at least a year and finding it hard to keep it bumping at around the 98-99% level for ages.

Extra storage - For Cash
Today I noticed that Google have started offering additional storage on GMail - clearly welcome for my predicament, but I was rather surprised that they wanted money for it. Isn’t Google free?

The options initially being offered are

• 6 GB ($20.00 per year)
• 25 GB ($75.00 per year)
• 100 GB ($250.00 per year)
• 250 GB ($500.00 per year)

I’ve got to go for it, just to get rid of the stress of having to delete load of emails.

UPDATE: We spend our money pretty much straight after publishing this and six hours later it still hasn’t updated GMail, so don’t expect a quick reaction.

On this day, years gone by ...

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• BBC To Take Live Webcam Feeds To TV Shows - 2006
• 446m Mobile Phones TV User By 2011? We Consider - 2006
• Sony's Japanese Artists Rebel Over iTunes - 2005
• UK Gov Looking To Subsidise Digital TV Transition via BBC? - 2005
• 20 Percent Of Music To Be Digitally Delivered By 2008 - 2005
• US Gamers Watch Less TV non-Shock - 2005
• Felcia Payment System Goes Live - 2004
• TiVo Cuts Prices to Increase Demand - 2004
• Roxio to Sell Software Division and Change Name to Napster - 2004