How does gmail space continue to grow?

I understand there are many accounts deleted everyday from inactivity but i would think there are just as many created. so how does gmail space alway continously growing?

How does gmail space continue to grow?
Hello,





Google continues to add physical drives to a storage area network (SAN) and allocating more storage to the email servers. SAN servers can be clustered to hundreds of Terabytes. 1000 Gigabytes makes up 1 Terabyte. So you can well imagine the scalability





They also compressing older email (saves space).


Basic emails don't take much space and 'text' compresses really easily.





Actual accounts don't take much space to add. They are basic objects with a few properties. The main thing is the space allocated to that account to store emails and attachments.





Cheers
Reply:They continue to add physical storage drives.

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