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Facebook's servers spend most of their time finding, sorting and then transmitting bits to the billion people who use Facebook. Storing a bunch of data and stor
by jonknee 13y ago
Facebook's servers spend most of their time finding, sorting and then transmitting bits to the billion people who use Facebook. Storing a bunch of data and storing a bunch of data that needs to be dynamically assembled in real time for a billion users are two very different things.
Regardless, no one has theorized that the NSA storing yottabytes of data. The (still probably crazy) rumors are zettabytes.
- thrownaway2424 13y ago"no one has theorized" that except for Wikipedia, Wired magazine, C-Net, and most of the people commenting on this thread. "NSA to store yottabytes in Utah data centre" -- http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/nsa-to-store-yottabytes-in-utah-data-centre-49304118/ http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/nsa-to-store-yottabytes-in-u...;