Gmail is really famous among users of all the email clients available on the web and that is not because it has a cool interface rather it is famous for its reliability and huge space (10GB now thats something). Google doesn’t stop here and recently Google announced that users can now buy more online storage for Google services just by paying a little amount. So why not use this online storage space and use it externally (Probably as a network drive or one of your own computer hard drives).
Use Google Storage Space as Google Drive
Here I have some great little utilities (3 softwares and 2 web scripts) that you can try to use your Gmail account space as your external hard drive. You will be able to download (or should I say copy) attachments from your Gmail account to your computer just as you would do from a drive on your computer. You can also use this space to upload content direct from your computer and save it online in your Gmail account.
1. GMail Drive
GMail Drive is third party addon for Windows that lets you use your
Gmail account space as an extra drive on your computer. It allows a
user to access a virtual drive stored in a Gmail e-mail account by
causing the contents of the Gmail account to appear as a new network
share on the user’s workstation. In order to use this add-on, the user
needs a Gmail e-mail account. The add-on enables the user to use the
standard Windows desktop file copy and paste commands to transfer files
to and from the Gmail account as if it was a drive on the user’s
computer.
2. GSpace
GSpace is a firefox extension that turns your 3GB of your Gmail
account into free online storage. With Gspace you can manage unlimited
Gmail accounts to store all type of files within its simple, user
friendly interface. You can also listen your favourite stored music
directly from your Gspace, view your collections of pictures and manage
your Gdrive files as well.
3. GmailFS
GmailFS or Gmail File System is a virtual file system developed by
Richard Jones which allows users to mount and use their Gmail email
account’s storage as a local disk drive. GmailFS is written for Linux,
but Windows and Mac OS X ports do exist. Using GmailFS will provide the
user with roughly three gigabytes of online storage. The speed of this
filesystem is limited by the speed of the user’s Internet connection,
and the upload/download speed of the Gmail server. Files can be any
size, and are stored as (segmented) attachments.
4. G-Share
G-Share is a PHP script that allows you to share your gmail
attachments in a webpage, it is a download center with files stored in
your Gmail account. You need a MySQL database to store data such as
download counters, visitors, etc
5. PHP Gmail Drive
PhpGmailDrive, also known as PGD, is an open source software
program written in PHP to share Gmail file attachments on the web. PGD
is based on GmailFS, a Gmail attachment file system that uses email
subjects for organization.
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