Gmail as a Hard Drive

Pretty much everyone with internet access knows what Gmail is. Gmail is Google's very popular online email service with millions of users around the world. Gmail at this moment offers of 7 gigabytes of free storage online, but not many everyday users will ever use that amount of space between their emails, documents and photos stored on Google services. A great solution for the use of many of these free gigabytes is to make Gmail into an online storage hard drive. & free gigabytes beats the offer by the leading online storage sites that offer about 2 gigabytes free.

Using Gmail as an online hard drive is quite simple. The first step is to search for Gmail Drive, preferably in Google's search engine, or search for it on download.com. You will be taken to the download site for this program. After this you merely download, unzip and install. The installation should take only a few seconds.

If the installation is done correctly you will see a new drive under your My Computer tab called Gmail drive. When you open this you will be asked for your login credentials for Gmail. Enter them, and if you would like to not have to do this again remember to hit the auto login box. Now you should have about a 7GB drive ready to store your files online, just use this file system like a normal flash drive attached to your computer.

How this works on the technical end is that Gmail Drive is a shell extension that creates a virtual file system by using the storage that is available in your Gmail account. After it does this files are stored in emails on your Gmail account which you can see when you login at gmail.com. But for the non-technical user, you get 7GB of free offsite storage.