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I'm hoping that $4/m/20GB is wrong. I pay $20/YEAR for 80GB of storage in docs.

I agree. I love their current pricing strategy for extra storage. I'm hoping that those prices are for Apps customers only (possibly as shared storage?) as the doc mentions administrators:

"When a user reaches the limit, administrators can purchase the necessary space of 20GB for $ 4 per month to 16TB (Google Docs are not counted in the quota of storage space)."

time to buy some annual storage and be grandfathered in?

So I think I was right.

I just bought 80GB a few minutes before the new pricing page went up. When I go back to my Accounts page and click on Storage-More Details I see the new pricing, but under my 80GB at $20/year I see the following: "* Your current plan is no longer offered.Learn more"

There is nothing yet under the Learn More link, but I can see that my next charge will occur next year. I hope that means old storage buyers are being grandfathered in.

Thinking about it some more, I should've gotten 200GB for $50.

The US blog post now says "You can choose to upgrade to 25GB for $2.49/month, 100GB for $4.99/month or even 1TB for $49.99/month. When you upgrade to a paid account, your Gmail account storage will also expand to 25GB."

Which service is that one?

I decided to try out Microsoft Skydrive which offers 7Gb free and has 20+7Gb for 10$/year

google storage - http://support.google.com/docs/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...

It's the same price at the Google Docs storage. Drive is public now and the pricing is the same.

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