[ILUG] Google Job

[Sean Rima]

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Dave O Connor wrote:
| Sean Rima said on Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 07:49:55PM +0100:
|
|>The T/C mention:
|>Gmail is a free service and includes 1,000 megabytes of storage with
|>each account.
|>
|>If they give away 1gb of space for each account and end up with 1
|>million accounts, jezz think of all the HD space. Sounds like a joke
to me.
|>
|
| Not particularly, given that not all users will use the full 1GB (in
fact, I
| doubt any of them will. Building up 1GB of mail usually takes a few
months of
| careless abandonment).
|
| That, and a terabyte of cheap storage can be had for under a grand
these days
| (assuming you're not buying large arrays in bulk, which I'd imagine google
| is). A million users? Before the groin-grabbingly nice hardware bulk
discount
| google almost certainly get, you're talking a couple hundred grand, max.
| That's assuming a milion users, each using their full gig. Which will
not be
| happening for a long, long time.
|
I have never had to buy a terrabyte of memory HD space as such :) Still
I have a nasty feeling it is a joke but I will more than likely be
eating humble pie in a day ore two

Sean
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