The current mail storage in GMail is 5GB (and counting), comparing to early this year it was only 2.8Gb (February 2007). If the pace of the increment grow steadily, we’ll be expecting a 10Gb mail storage in the next 2 or 3 years time or Google might probably go unlimited storage like Yahoo!.
Yahoo! Mail started off exactly 10 years ago offering 4Mb for each free mail account, today they are already going unlimited mail storage. That is really a bar very hard to match for its competitors.
Other free mail providers
Hotmail / Windows Live Mail on the other hand is giving 5Gb free mail storage, while Lycos Mail is throwing in 3Gb. Here’s something interesting about Lycos mail – unlimited attachment size.
Here’s a brief run down on these four major free mail provider’s mail storage capacity as well as attachment limit. Please correct me on the figures if I’m wrong.
- GMail : 5Gb / 20Mb attachment size
- Yahoo! Mail: Unlimited / 10Mb attachment size
- Hotmail : 5Gb / 10Mb attachment size
- Lycos Mail : 3Gb / Unlimited attachment size
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Posted by hongkiat in Tech News , at 11.19.07
Tags: attachment limit, gmail, hotmail, lycos, storage, yahoo mail |
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Comments
lilian aka 5xmom November 19th, 2007
And that KNNMCB Streamyass, dunno how many cos my mail got bounced all the time. 200MB? Yayaya, I also use Outlook Express and use TM Net cos I Malaysian mahhh.
ReplyWing Loon November 20th, 2007
It is good to see Gmail now surpase Hotmail in storage space, :D
ReplyKarl November 20th, 2007
Unlimited attachment size !
ReplyThat’s awsome, I think that’s more important than the storage.
Thought it’s good with some extra space on my gmail :D
David November 20th, 2007
Out of them all gmail is the best in my opinion.
Replyyahoo hasnt been delivering emails all that well lately.
hongkiat November 20th, 2007
Let me share a little bit of my experience in free mail storage. I’ve exceeded the quote for 2 gmail account, mainly used to store forward mails and I don’t really delete them.
all my .com emails are directed to Google Aps, I send and receive all my .com mails within gmail. In this way, emails will not occupy the bandwidth and space storage within my hosting account.
ReplySyahid Ali November 22nd, 2007
bigger does not always mean better. (but me owned email on both services. lol!)
ReplyNicholas November 29th, 2007
Yahoo Mail sucks, you have to pay to use POP mail on email client. Boo! And it’s slow like Live Mail too, still support Gmail. =)
Replylankapo December 2nd, 2007
Gmail rawks!!!
ReplyJeff Mah December 5th, 2007
What happened? I looked yesterday, Dec 3, and it was down to 2.8 gb free storage, from over 5 gb. It is growing again.
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