It seemed so immense.

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It's a truism that the digital items that we save are directly related to our capacity to save them. Saving photographs at a resolution that once would have filled up a substantial percentage of a hard drive doesn't faze us, and even saving a copy of hefty videos hardly garners a second thought. So I guess that I shouldn't have been surprised that after many years of gmail, and almost never throwing anything in the trash I was dangerously close to full capacity - even after gmail continued to increase the size of my account until 15GB. And when I found that with increasing frequency I was asking myself whether I should save something, the decision to pay for storage was a relatively easy one to make.

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