An overview on storage spaces on google account

I have been using google account from very long time and I am in the habit of keeping all the documents and photos as an email. But recently I noticed, I am running out of space it is almost 97% of the space. Then I started reading about storage of google account. Here are some of my findings which I am sharing and can be helpful for you also.

Overview of storage in Google account:

Google provides each Gmail user a free 15 GB of storage on its servers. But it is shared pool of storage, which is shared across your Gmail, Google Drive and Google Photos.

If you use Google Apps at work or school, you have at least 30 GB of storage. 

You can see the overall storage view of your account here.

It will ask for your account credentials. After entering the credentials, you will find the overview of storage.

Google Drive Storage

Google Drive Storage

As you can easily see from screen shots, My current plan is 15 GB free. But if you want more storage space, Google has paid services also. 

Currently google has following plans. You can buy plan according to your need.

100 GB-$1.99/month

1 TB - $9.99/month

10 TB - $99.99/month

20 TB - $199.99/month

30 TB - $299.99/month

Now click on total storage circle.This will show exactly how much space is taken each Gmail, Google Drive and Google Photos.

Google Storage Breakup

As you can see from above screen-shots from my account, Google drive is taking 4.82 GB, Gmail is taking 9.76 GB and Google Photos is taking no space.


Now I’ll tell you which items in your Gmail, Drive and Google Photos are counting the spaces.

Items count for Storage:

Gmail Gmail counts the spaces for all the messages and attachments in your mail. It   includes your Spam and Trash folders also. 

Drive: Drive counts the spaces for all the files you’ve stored in your Drive. For example PDFs, images, and videos. 

Google Photos: Google Photos counts the spaces for all the photos you upload, if you choose "Original" in your Google Photos upload settings.

Google Photo settings

Items doesn't count for Storage:

If you’ve made with Google Docs, Sheets, Presentations, Drawings and Slides, it won’t count toward your storage.If anyone shared the files with you, it’ll not count for your storage.