Reading about how Facebook is going to need to raise more money (potentially to the tune of $100M) as it continues to grow, all I can say is, I feel Mark Z’s pain. Sort of, on an admittedly different, smaller scale, mind you.
They need servers, we always seem to need more storage. We are now running out of our existing storage of 24 terabytes, which represents the media we’ve shot and produced since 2006 (we have actually bought a bit more, since we have changed our configuration as we’ve expanded storage, but we always seem to find good uses for the old stuff).
Anyway, if you want to get an idea of what 24 TB of storage can save, here is an image I found via Flickr:
And no, we don’t use the SunfireX4500, aka Thumper… in case you’re wondering… but I dig the image.
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