Comments on: To Celebrate Launch of Google Drive, Gmail Storage Size Bumped to 10GB

By: Ted Pavlic

Ted Pavlic — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:47:00 +0000

That makes no sense though. You get 10GB for free (and it was 7.25-ish GB before). So you’d expect to see 25GB or 35GB — not 30GB.

So it looks more like a typo.

By: Lonnie Kerchief

Lonnie Kerchief — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:26:00 +0000

Maybe this upgraded storage had to do with the rolling outages last week.

By: MichaelCrackMonkey

MichaelCrackMonkey — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:59:00 +0000

It showed up finally. I looked in the app drawer and at first no change but then I noticed that Docs went away. Shortly after that I noticed Drive where is was not previously. I’m glad Google finally came out with Drive but I still get 50GB free on Box so I’ll be using it for my large storage needs. I like the MS Office integration of Box.

By: Matty G

Matty G — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:44:00 +0000

Don’t tempt them!!!

By: Jacob Davis

Jacob Davis — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:11:00 +0000

No, they’re getting an ADDITIONAL 25 gigs, for a total of 30.

By: wireless G

wireless G — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:44:00 +0000

If they bumped Drive’s storage to 10GB instead of GMail, I’d probably switch over.

By: Ted Pavlic

Ted Pavlic — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:09:00 +0000

For example, right now it says that inside GDocs I have 25600 MB of storage space total. I don’t know where it gets that number, but I’ve only paid for 20GB of storage. It also says I’ve used 0% of that.

My GMail has another similar number which appears to be 20GB plus the GMail free storage.

On the settings/storage page, it says I’ve used up 8GB of my 20GB. I think that number comes from my Picasa overage. I have uploaded a significant amount of photos well over the original 1GB.

By: Ted Pavlic

Ted Pavlic — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:06:00 +0000

The way it works on the old plans is that you get the storage on top of any free storage.

So I purchased 20 GB which serves as a general overflow. I get 1GB of free Docs storage, and then it overflows into the 20GB. Likewise, I get 1GB of free Picasa storage, and it overflows into the 20GB. Once something has eaten into the 20GB, it takes away the extra overflow space from the other services.

It’s possible on the new plans that it’s just shared space everywhere.

By: Ted Pavlic

Ted Pavlic — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:04:00 +0000

In fact, here’s an attached screenshot. You can see the “Your GMail storage will be 30 GB” in it at the bottom of the two boxes.

By: Ted Pavlic

Ted Pavlic — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:02:00 +0000

When I click on that link, it reads: “Your Gmail storage will be 30 GB.”

By: Zein_marwan2005

Zein_marwan2005 — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:42:00 +0000

Thy do, guy there is wrong.

By: Click Here

Click Here — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:38:00 +0000

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So true. I can’t stand having old mail whatnot in my box, can’t imagine needing this much space.

By: QtDL

QtDL — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:33:00 +0000

Geez sorry for joking around. I was under the assumption that updates for Nexus devices came directly from Google.

By: jaymonster

jaymonster — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:24:00 +0000

I think that is what they mean when they say, ”
The additional space should become available over the next 24 hours”

By: jaymonster

jaymonster — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:22:00 +0000

I misread this (my apologies), I thought you were talking about DRIVE space, not GMail.

According to the screen where you purchase the storage though, it says you upgrade to 25GB for Gmail and also get 25GB for “Drive and Picasa”
https://www.google.com/settings/storage/