Where Facebook Stores 900 Million New Photos Per Day

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday July 1, 2015 @03:01AM from the prints-them-and-mails-them-to-toledo dept.

1sockchuck writes: Facebook faces unique storage challenges. Its users upload 900 million new images daily, most of which are only viewed for a couple of days. The social network has built specialized cold storage facilities to manage these rarely-accessed photos. Data Center Frontier goes inside this facility, providing a closer look at Facebook's newest strategy: Using thousands of Blu-Ray disks to store images, complete with a robotic retrieval system (see video demo). Others are interested as well. Sony recently acquired a Blu-Ray storage startup founded by Open Compute chairman Frank Frankovsky, which hopes to drive enterprise adoption of optical data storage.

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c#0m by Anonymous Coward · 2015-07-01 05:42 · Score: -1, Offtopic

[samag.cOm] in the also d3ad, its
Re:ohmigosh stop the presses! by stoned_ritual · 2015-07-01 06:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Wow, you're such a nice person. I hope you have a pleasant day. I also hope that a truck never runs you over. Or that an icicle never falls through your skull. Or that you never immolate. Or that you're never mugged and raped by a violent criminal.
Look, I can be sarcastic too!