Anne-Maree
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I heard that twitter has changed its policy.
Storage on spinning rust is cheap, but when you have 4 billion accounts and you give each account 15gb of free storage, that 60 billion gb of storage to take care of.are almost a commodity. But Gmail? Disk space is so cheap. Gmail can afford it.
What about all those account holders wh
seeing how much they charge for the crappy customer service at adwords they can afford itStorage on spinning rust is cheap, but when you have 4 billion accounts and you give each account 15gb of free storage, that 60 billion gb of storage to take care of.
That's 60 exabytes of data. Last i checked an exabyte costed about 20 million just for the drives. So that's $1.2 billion just in raw storage. Then there's electricity, bandwidth, cooling, compute and devs to pay and we are looking a cool $5 billion.
Gmail and Workspace doesn't bring them a lot more than that. Naturally google would want to cut costs.