2006-06-20 06:36:21 · 4 answers · asked by KH 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
if the current global population is ~6.5billion, and we conservatively assume that half as many of those 6.5billion own a computer or have regular access to internet access, then assume roughly 20% of those 3.25 billion are registered yahoo email suscribers, we get the needs of ~800 million people using yahoo services. I would guess this is a very disproprtionate estimate. I would guess no more that 100 million users are registered to and actively use yahoo accounts. Regardless, for each non-fee account an allocated 1 gigabyte storage is reserved. Thus, between 100 and 800 million gigabytes are necessary to store all mail reciepts including spam, photos, and video. It's a large range, but I believe does include the actual number.
2006-06-20 06:58:16 · answer #1 · answered by GCourter 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One thing to keep in mind, however, is even though you have 250Mb (or whatever it is, i forget), they don't necessairally have to have all that disk space because most users only use a fraction of their e-mail. Also, yahoo probably compresses your email to save even more space. Its still a lot of space, but keep in mind that Yahoo is a huge company, and they can afford to buy many terrabytes of disk space.
2006-06-20 13:59:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOTSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS of Servers and Storages, I don't think even Yahoo owner knows how much does they have at all
2006-06-20 13:40:27 · answer #3 · answered by doolph2002 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They won't tell you that. it would breach their security.
2006-06-20 13:52:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋