20 GB Windows Live Hotmail

Can someone tell me just how many emails would be equivalent to 20 GB?  I don't want to pay for the storage of Hotmail Plus, unless I absolutely have to, and I don't know how many emails coming to?

I thought it was 5 to start with and for Skydrive 25 GB?  Well...

No one knows an exact number of emails coming in because there is no standard size for an email.  An email may contain images, special fonts, HTML, 40 pages of text, or a character.  This could have attachments, backgrounds, etc.

20 GB is worth ~ 5 DVD information.  That's a lot.  I couldn't find a definitive answer on the limit of a file that can be sent as an attachment (should include the size of the messages too) for hotmail.  I saw 10MB.  I saw 20MB.  I saw 25MB.  I saw 50MB.  So I decided to try it myself.

-First of all, I decided to test the size of a couple of simple emails.

Object:
The size of the Email test

The body of the message:
What size a message with only this amount of text (plain text) and a simple signature?

   

--

Zhang

AND

Object:
The size of the Email test

The body of the message:
What size a message with only this amount of text (in the format of HTML text) and a simple signature?

   

--

Zhang

Nor was sent in italics - that was just for emphasis.  The first e-mail was sent to the TEXT PLAIN format, as indicated.  It is about 8KB.  The second e-mail was sent in HTML but with no special shape/colour/etc layout.  It represents about 10KB.  Now - where someone says ", but the formulation was different in the two - size will be different because of this"-in terms of bytes, you are probably correct, but by a small enough margin that if I sent the second email in plain text format, it was still ~ 8 KB.  I only looked at the KB level - so I just rounded to the KB.  To this effect - I don't think a lot more will be needed.

So, there you go - a simple email a liner will take between 8 KB and 10 KB.  No formatting, nothing special - one was just sent to plain text, either as HTML (wven although he took no advantage of it in a way specifically).  Even if, by displaying the source code of the HTML email (as generated by Office 2010) was pretty scary amount of 'stuff' he added.  In any case...

Let's go on the high end of this simple test.  10 KB. How many of these emails could enter a space of 20 GB?  Simple math says...  2 097 152 emails before you fill up with 20 GB of space.  Yes - that's a lot of e-mails.  2 million MORE e-mails.

Truthfully - I looked through 6800 points I have in a mailbox and more than half of them were below 35 KB in size.  This isn't an average - but because most of the emails I receive is without attachments / frills - I bet I could easily get 500 000 email - some with attachments of different sizes and still have a little space to spare.  And this assumes (incorrectly) I would never delete any of these emails.

What happens if maximize you the size of the message you can send and receive with hotmail?  Still - I couldn't find the definitive answer.  So I tested.

First of all, I created an empty file of 10 MB.  Administration command prompt and use this command:
fsutil file createnew 10 MB. SZE 10485760
... and got a file by the name of 10 MB. SZE use which was exactly 10MB in size.

Since I was able to confirm the size of GMAIL attachment limit, "with Gmail, you can send and receive messages reaching up to 25 megabytes (MB) in size." I used it to do the tests.

  • I sent the attachment of 10 MB to my hotmail account using my gmail account.  He crossed, although it took more time than I think it should have.
  • I sent the attachment of 10 MB of my hotmail account on my gmail account.  He crossed, although it took more time than I think it should have.

Then, I created a 20 MB attachment and repeated.  Even with a 25 MB attachment.

  • The attachment of 20 MB sent and received fine in hotmail
  • Sent and received fine in hotmail 25 MB attachment

To go higher, I had to use another account - I knew that one had a higher limit.  I went higher only 1 MB (26 MB) 25 MB being the most high, I had heard in my quick search for Hotmail.  Looks like 25 MB is the maximum!  26 MB, I received: "message exceeds the fixed maximum size...

So - run with the - simplify wrongly the maximum size of the message is actually 25MB (it should be slightly larger, but...) and so - if you have a 20 GB limit on the email you can have ~ 819 emails of this size before you run out of space.  It is very unlikely that all of your emails will have 25MB accessories.

If you think that all your emails will have 25 MB spare - part you need to find a better way to transfer files as e-mail. ;-)

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