Your Gmail storage problem probably isn't Gmail

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Now that Google has consolidated Google Gmail, Drive, and Photos into a single shared store of data, the biggest threat to going over your storage quota isn't an email, but that funny video you took two summers ago. If I had written this newsletter a week earlier I'd be $20 richer and have a lot more self-respect, too. If you're like me, you've been focusing on exactly the wrong aspect of managing your Google data quota: Gmail. If you're running a free Gmail account, chances are you've run across the dreaded error message, warning that your data quota is about to reach its limit.