Google’s Mail Program (Gmail) has a wonderful selling point, Unlimited storage for your email. In practical, this means the storage allocated for the Email just gets increasing every second the times passes, bound by a formula. Recently, Google decided to speed up the increment rate utilizing the formula below:
var CP = [
[ 1175414400000, 2835 ],
[ 1192176000000, 2912 ],
[ 1193122800000, 4321 ],
[ 1199433600000, 6283 ],
[ 2147328000000, 43008 ],
[ 46893711600000, Number.MAX_VALUE ]
];
In layman’s term, it is:
- 2912MB by October 11, 2007 midnight Google time
- 4.2GB by the 23rd this month (October 2007)
- 6GB by January 4th next year (January 2008)
- 42GB by the year of 2038
- 2.70266701 × 1072 TB* by 1/2/3456 7:00
From now on, we can expect a rough estimate of 0.9GB increase in storage every month. Notice that this increment rate is way faster than the previous algorithm used. Back then in April 2005, Google rolled out the “Infinity + 1″ plan.
Soon after that, they realize infinity is an unreachable goal (infinity is an ongoing value), so what matters now is the speed of increment rate (value of speed to reach infinity is an integer). On top of that all existing and new users of Google Apps’s Mail Program will also receive the same increment rate. Premier Edition users will receive a 15GB bonus of storage space for emails.
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