Need a terabyte of email?

[K9]

http://www.hriders.com/ is offering one terabyte of email space (yes that's over 107 million megabytes) for free. The attachment limit is a mere 500 megabytes. Now as this is something I've never seen before, I won't trust them with just putting anything in their inbox. But for anything that is problem free, well let's just say I don't mind that much free storage. But can someone tell me how they can offer that much free space?

[megalomania]

This reminds me of the heyday of "unlimited" space many free providers offered back in 2000 before the .com bubble burst. People who actually dared use large amounts of space, or bandwidth, were promptly deleted. This sonds like a sales gimmick.

The only thing that could possibly use so mach space is spam :) Now viewing page 1 of 93,000,000,000 >>2 >>3>> 4>> Last

And a terabyte is only 1 million megabytes as they likely count them.

If every member of The Forum signed up for an email, the sum total contents of the FTP could be emailed as a series of attachments simply by forwarding mail from a Forum account with all the files attached. Hell that's only about 30 gigs at last count.

Oh I salivate at the thought of the abuse potential. Reality will catch up with them soon enough. I bet there are some insidious terms and conditions to follow.

[Anthony]

You can get a 200GB HDD for $110. Multiplied by 5, that makes $550 for a terrabyte of storage. That's for cheapo domestric drives, for SCSI and RAID multiply that by several times.

Who the hell is going to give that away for free? If something is too good to be true...

[K9]

Yes exactly, that's what makes me so suspect of it. It does look way to good to be true.

Oh and it's listed as 107374182.4 Mb.

[megalomania]

I say we are about 12 years away from the point where a company could easily offer a TB of storage for free. I just got a 250 GB hard drive for $50 thanks to black friday deals. Even at $0.20/gig that's $200 per person. Of course the figure you quoted, K9 is only 100 GB, but that's still $20 a pop. It is quite unlikely 99% of all the people signing up would use anything close to a whole terabyte. Lets say 2 gigs on average because I bet you a dollar they meter the upload and download speeds to a crawl and that makes it tough to stuff. That brings us down to $0.40 a person. Reasonable, but I am sure they will fold just like every other free space provider that offered tons of space.

[Setharier]

The idea of these super-size mails is very simple. They will attract many people, but very few actually use all that space. I've got myself over a dozen of Gmail accounts which offers over 5Gigs of space each one(so I have over 60Gigs of Google disk available), but the most filled mail has only 37Megs of stuff in it. And I am very sure 99% of all their customers are just like me. Only the few chosen will use all the space available.

The Service could also gain access to all people's stuff they pack in their mails this way. Not only the mails, I am very afraid of Google Chrome and Google inventoring/HDD search software, because they("Googlese") seem to have access everywhere nowadays, even to people's health information. It's not so utophistic that Google HDD search will research quietly the whole HDD and make an encrypted support file that has list of all files and their types, and mother machine/NSA will, after researching it, make the searcher to upload all the interesting files up to internet.

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[sbovisjb1]

Are you sure this is what message I receive on my account....


You are currently using 429 MB (6%) of your 7156 MB.

[iHME]

Apparently http://www.hriders.com/ redirects to http://www.adultsxyz.com/ a porn site.

No 1tb mail for me :(

[megalomania]

Know a scam site by its cries of "unlimited bandwidth" and "massive storage." Has anyone ever tried to use such services? If you actually do use more than a few GB of storage or bandwidth your account gets booted. These are just marketing ploys to sell ads.

Check for yourself, the cheapest web hosts are always the ones offering the most space. They offer the moon, they give you squat.

It will still be years before a LEGIT company gives a TB of anything that regular people actually can, and will, be able to use.