I never really got into the GMail thing, don't get me wrong, I still think that Google's search service is the best thing since sliced bread. It is my home page, and hell, when I worked in Product Support at Microsoft, when Google was down, our productivity at solving customer issue dropped about 30%. Sometimes we'd laugh and say 'Just use http://search.msn.com '. Trust me, we were laughing at them, not with them.

Anyhow, IS Google making harddrives? Well, not on purpose, and not very large (1 gig), but with this GMail Drive utility, you can mount your gig of storage space right in your My Computer folder like a normal drive. I tested it out by dropping several MP3s in there and it worked well, albiet alittle slow, but it is definantly what I would consider 'remote' storage so speed is not necessarily an expectation, especially when it's free... Download the tool and check it out, it may be something useful if you commonly need to transfer files between work and home and don't have a more convenient way to do it. Here is a quote from their site to give you a better idea:

GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google GMail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your GMail account directly from inside Windows Explorer. GMail Drive literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new folders, copy and drag'n'drop files to.

Another really cool 'feature' of this is that if you happen to be somewhere where you don't have permissions to install anything, so 'no GMail Drive for you!', you can download the attachments from the messages that end up in your mailbox. I would assume that these downloads might be limited to 6 megs, but I have successfully posted files larger than 6 megs and moved them back out with the drive in My Computer. Wonders never cease...