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One of the advantages of being on an exponential growth curve is that this figure has been way lower in the past. Just go back 5 years and it's only a fraction
by est31 6y ago
One of the advantages of being on an exponential growth curve is that this figure has been way lower in the past. Just go back 5 years and it's only a fraction of that. 5 more years and it's even lower. The gmail/drive/etc. data that come from Google's first decade of existence probably fit into those 4.3 petabytes.
- vageli 6y agoHow is this an advantage?
- est31 6y agoAdvantage in the sense that they have to store less. 4.3 petabytes times the age of Google in days is way way more than they actually have to store, as the time period when they were adding 4.3 petabytes daily is short in comparison.
- jstanley 6y agoSo the advantage of being on an exponential growth curve is that today's problems are tiny in comparison to tomorrow's problems? That seems like a disadvantage!
- sagarm 6y agoThe other implication of exponential data growth is that shortening retention periods is only a short term solution to storage costs.
- dvfjsdhgfv 6y agoI'd say it's the main implication. Google will have to use more drastic means soon. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 6y agoI used to work on a certain Google product and I remember thinking a petabyte was big when our raw content store crossed that milestone. Now Linus Tech Tips can put that much storage in a single box.
- znpy 6y agoThanks for posting that, most people don't realise how much compute/storage you can actually put on a single rack cabinet nowadays.
- gogopuppygogo 6y agoI remember about ten years ago when 40TB of usable storage was a mid sized five five figure investment. That’s nas territory now.
- bryanrasmussen 6y agoI remember a time when 3mb of black market data was enough to get you out of the sprawl. Now you can barely get a Uber downtown for that.
- dreamcompiler 6y agoWhoa.
- nucleardog 6y agoYep. Thats the flip side the the growth is that storage capacity keeps growing relative to price as well. I spent $600 over a decade ago and put 7.5TB in my server. I spent $600 this year to add another 28TB. I’m at nearly 40TB in my home server for maybe $1200 invested over the last decade.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 6y agoOne problem that we run into though is that spindle count /random access capability is not increasing correspondingly. It's an interesting challenge.