Purchase Cheap Storage for your Google Account
Do you know you can Purchase Additional Online Storage Space for your Google Account at a very low cost?
GMail/Googlemail, Picasa and Google Docs are parts of your Google Account which requires Storage Space.
Your GMail/Googlemail, Picasa and Google Docs Account already comes with Free Storage. This Free Storage Space is specific to each product:
- Picasa Web Albums offers 1 GB of storage for your Photos and Videos only. This also includes the Images which you post on Blogger and Google Buzz!
- Gmail/Googlemail provides 7+ GB (and counting) which is reserved for your Email Messages (which includes Attachments also).
- Google Docs gives you 1 GB for Everything: All of your Docs, Spreadsheets, Presentations, and Uploaded files [See Limits].
Keep in mind that Free storage from one product cannot be used by or transferred to another product. But if you are hitting the Free Storage Limit soon, than it’s recommended that you Upgrade your Storage, so that you can continue using the Services.
For Purchasing More Storage you can make use of this LINK (Login Required). As soon as the Login is successful, you will see various available Storage Plans (See Example Screenshot below):
Suppose you want to Purchase 20 GB of additional Storage for your Google Account for $5 per Year, select the First Option and click Buy 20 GB for $5 per Year Blue Button:
Now in the Next Page you are required to associate your Credit Card Details with your Google Account (rather say with Google Checkout) and enter your Billing Details. Continue with your purchase after Agreeing to Google Checkout TOS.
If you purchase $50 or More of Storage (200 GB or More), than you are entitled to get a free Eye-Fi Wireless SDHC Camera Memory Card with which you can upload photos Wirelessly to your Picasa Web Albums! Check your Camera Compatibility here and you can read more details about this offer here
Also Before buying keep in mind following 2 Points:
- Your Shared Storage Space will be used by whatever Product needs it. You can’t set aside Shared Storage Space either for Gmail, Docs or Picasa – it will be used by any product that’s over its free storage quota on a first-come, first-served basis.
- Storage Plans are NOT Available for Google Apps for Domains
Enjoy low Cost Storage Space for various Google Account Services.
Also See: Use GMail as your Photo Album and Free Backup Services
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It seems a good idea for people who store a lot of things online in their Google accounts. I dont but still maybe if in future anytime I need it then I will refer to this post. Thanks mate
You are Welcome
Good deal and I have just bought $20 package to host my images online
If they would let you use the storage for anything you wanted I think they could get a lot of people to sign up. But the way it is now seems like its really only useful to extreme power Picasa users. Who needs 6GB of mail storage?
The idea is probably to get everyone to buy some storage for their extra images and once used to that spend offer to sell them storage for a different file type at another Google property. Make them all cheap to buy and incrementally take all our money.
@Tinh
That’s Awesome
@ Tech Sputter
Thanks for your View on this. I have seen some people who requires extra storage space as there Gmail Account is FULL!
And of course, extra space will be useful for those who are Power Picasa User
Yeah,that is greatest,20gb for $5/year,better than others
I use both Picassa and Flickr for sharing photos over the internet but i use Flickr more often than Picassa.’,;
Even I prefer Flickr over Picasa