Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Day +1421 : I paid Google USD 5

I am fine today.

I hit the Google Picasa Web Albums 1GB storage limit yesterday. Since all image postings on this blog are stored on Picasa Web Albums, I won't be able to post further images anymore.

I have no choice but to purchase additional storage. It is fortunate that the cost of additional storage is considerable cheap; 20GB storage for a year cost only USD 5. This extra storage can be used for Picasa Web Albums, email and Google Documents.

Google will auto renew the storage subscription plan annually until we discontinue it through Google Account.

One thing that was puzzling me regarding this additional storage subscription was if we discontinue the subscription later, what would happen to our content? I was glad to find out that Google promises to keep the content even if we discontinue the subscription later.
No matter when you cancel your storage subscription, your extra storage will be available for the entire year you've purchased. After your plan expires, your storage will be limited to each individual product's free storage quota. Under our current policy, any content over the free storage quota will still be accessible, however you will not be able to add new content until your storage balance falls below the free storage limit.
If you need storage, paying USD 5 per year for 20GB can be a good choice.

The extra storage subscription plan - USD 5 for every 20GB

My storage usage - take note of the 20GB paid storage which is fresh from the "credit card"
See you next post :-)

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Hi..thanks for sharing the info. Interested to give a try..GBU