Are you a Gmail user who needs more storage beyond the 7 gigs provided? How about a Picasa user who has used all of the one gigabyte the service offers for free?

Google has just announced that they are lowering the price of storage and also upping the amount that you can purchase.

You can now buy 20 GB for only $5 a year, twice as much storage for a quarter of the old price, and enough space for more than 10,000 full resolution pictures taken with a five megapixel camera. And if you need more than 20 GB, you can purchase up to 16 terabytes!

With all of this storage available at such a low price can the often discussed Google “virtual drive” (aka the “GDrive) that has yet to materialize be coming soon? It makes you wonder if today’s announcement is a precursor to something larger. Of course, some people have built their own tools to make Gmail into a place to store various documents. It will be interesting to see if other companies providing online “cloud” storage meets or beats the price.

Source: Official Gmail Blog

See Also: It’s worth mentioning that Microsoft has offered 25 GB of storage space for free with their “virtual drive” service named SkyDrive since August, 2007. Learn about it here.

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