When Gmail will reach 3 GB?
Friday, February 10, 2006 by Jason
I just found this article very interesting. This blogger point out that Google is just playing number game.
Because of counter running at Gmail website, we all think that we will get 3 GB soon, but in reality, it would take 4 years to come. Yes, that's true 4 years.
The current rate of increase is at an average of 4 bytes per second
Now, we’re ready to do some basic math:
4 bytes / sec => 240 bytes / min => 14400 bytes / hr => 345600 bytes / day
If our goal is 3 GB and we’re going at a rate of 345600 bytes / day, it would take:
X days = 3,221,225,472 / 345,600 bytes
~ 9320 days => 25 years to go from 1 byte to 3 gigabytes
Ok, now we’re already at 2,693,144,200 bytes as of 4:30 PST, Feb 9, 2006. We’re now 528,081,272 bytes (503 MB) away from our 3 GB goal. So, let’s count how many days are left for GMail to become 3 GB.
X days = 528,081,272 / 345,600 bytes = 1528 days => 4 years
Because of counter running at Gmail website, we all think that we will get 3 GB soon, but in reality, it would take 4 years to come. Yes, that's true 4 years.
4 years? damn, i thought like 4 months