Google 16TB Cloud Drive Available for $4,096 per Year [Cheaper Storage Solutions Available Too]

Google officially announced in a blog post today that it’s ready to offer “twice the storage for a quarter of the price.” In other words if you need a piece of the cloud then Google will happily rent it to you every year. The offer sounds especially good as most of us have various files that we’d like to be able to retrieve at any given point without having to carry around portable storage solutions.

So Google decided to double the storage space while cutting those prices and we’re definitely not going to object to any of that. Right now your Gmail account will offer you about 7GB of storage space while Picasa comes with about 1GB of memory for you. Upgrading to 20GB is really easy and it costs you just $5 per year which is a quarter of the price Google used to charge for half the space until now.

While that offer is very accessible and pretty “normal” for the regular user, some of you may want to purchase more space. Is 16TB enough for you? That’s not a spelling error although the T is awfully close to the G on the keyboard. Google is crazy enough to offer that much space in the cloud as there are plenty of crazy customers to require that much space available. 16TB the upper limit although there are plenty of choices below that number. 16TB storage space is now available for $4,096 per year but if you need that much space to store stuff then you can probably afford it.

Unfortunately for all of us Google is not ready to rent us the cloud for other services than Google or Picassa. That means you we won’t be able to store pretty much anything we want up there, or at least it won’t be that easy. I guess we will have to wait for Google Drive to arrive in order to have more backup options from Google.

As I side note I’d really want to see a Gmail account that would need 16TB of storage space. What about you? What cloud services do you currently use?