How Google manages so much space for its gmail users?
@belligerentwarrior (223)
Pakistan
February 1, 2007 5:18am CST
Its a question for everyone that how do u think that gmail or other email services manage huge space for their users. Because they have millions of users having email accounts of 2GB. How do they manage this.
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@vbcoder (196)
• Philippines
1 Feb 07
eventhough gmail says that you have 2GB of space in your email, it does not necessary mean that it is already allocated. not all users of gmail uses all the 2GB disk space. and besides, hard drives are getting cheap right now than it used to be. a 300GB hd cost around less than a 100$ from where i live, im pretty sure it much cheaper abroad.
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@deepuj (591)
• India
2 Feb 07
As many ppl. here said nobody really uses all the 2gb+ memory ,so they maynot require all that space,its rite, but they have still lot of data which has to stored n processed, n not only the mail space since they are a search engine n they have crawled almost the entire world wide web, their memory requirements will be very huge n enormous.I guess they use mainframes or somthing like that to serve their purpose.
