Gmail Calculations

2005-04-09 11:05:32
Gmail storage is currently rising at 1/1000 MB every 25 seconds. This means that:

It takes a little over 6 hours 56 minutes to increase one MB
Every day storage increases by 3.456 MB
By next April 1st, Gmail users will have about 3300 MB
It takes 289 days to increase 1 gigabyte
By the turn of the next millenium, Gmail users will have 1,257,183 MB of storage, enough to store about 100 million emails
Every .003125 seconds, Gmail users get one additional bit of storage, enough to store either a 1 or a 0