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It looks like every four days Facebook gets a Flickr worth of photos.

• dummyfellow 11y ago
  seems FB will be bigger then google, once they launch the video service.
  • cloudwalking 11y ago
    Google's a lot bigger than you imagine.
  • thrownaway2424 11y ago
    Doubtful. This article describes only 2EB of storage, while Google was estimated to have 15EB of storage two years ago. Another comparison with Google would be regarding the erasure coding technique described in this blog post. Google offhandedly mentioned using it in a 2010 presentation. Is this really Facebook's first deployment of erasure coding?
    • brettproctor 11y ago
      No. We published an article of doing raid in hdfs in june 2014: https://code.facebook.com/posts/536638663113101/saving-capacity-with-hdfs-raid/ https://code.facebook.com/posts/536638663113101/saving-capac...
• sidcool 11y ago
  That's true, it's insane amount of photos. Two billion daily!!!