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Nice investigation and also Facebook has been using 50gb blue rays http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-uses-10000-blu-rays-for-backup-2014-1 http://www.busi
by zitterbewegung 10y ago
Nice investigation and also Facebook has been using 50gb blue rays http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-uses-10000-blu-rays-for-backup-2014-1 http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-uses-10000-blu-rays-... and is moving to 300gb
http://www.businessinsider.com/ces-2016-facebook-uses-panasonic-freezeray-2016-1 http://www.businessinsider.com/ces-2016-facebook-uses-panaso... .
- digi_owl 10y agoAnd Sony have been pushing a BD based backup/archiving system for business use, iirc. Built around multiple discs in a cartridge.
- pacaro 10y agoAnd, to my knowledge, least one specific principal level engineer worked on both systems
- kakarot 10y agoCould you provide me some insight into why optical storage is a better solution than standard HDDs? Is it just the cost, or is cooling / form-factor a big part of it?
- zitterbewegung 10y agoIt is cost that provides the upside for BluRay than HDDs.
- gambiting 10y agoOptical discs cost cents when purchased in bulk, they are literally just plastic + some coating, no expensive metal or electronic parts are required.