Google must just have hard disk space to burn or something if they are contemplating offering folks a terabyte of storage … could this be a reality?

Several users of the search engine’s Gmail Web-based e-mail service noticed Tuesday that their storage limits had quietly been raised to 1 million megabytes, or 1 terabyte. That’s four times the typical capacity of a new high-end PC’s hard drive.

If this turns out to be something other than somebody throwing the wrong switch, the water will get a lot hotter for Yahoo and Microsoft (Hotmail). Don’t you just love it when big companies knock heads?

update: I’ve been reading around the web that this was just an internal “mistake” and that Google has no intention of offering a terabyte of storage space.