Regardless, there's some computer somewhere serving this. How do they service 1.6 PB per day? Are we talking tape backup? Disks? I've seen these mechanical arms that can pick tapes from a stack on a shelf, is that what is used? (example: https://www.osc.edu/sites/default/files/press/images/tapelib...)
For disks that's like ~60/day without redundancy, do they have people just constantly building out and onlining machines in some giant warehouse?
I assume there's built in redundancy and someone's job to go through and replace failed units?
This all sounds like it's absurdly expensive.
And I'd have to assume they deal with at least 100x that scale because they have many other customers.
Like what is that? 6,000 disks a day? Really?
I hear these numbers of petabyte storage frequently. I think Facebook is around 5PB/daily. I've never had to deal with anything that large. Back in the colo days I saw a bunch of places but nothing like that.
I'm imagining forklifts moving around pallets of shrink wrapped drives that get constantly delivered
Am I missing something here?
Places like AWS should run tours. It'd be like going to the mint.
Regardless, there's some computer somewhere serving this. How do they service 1.6 PB per day? Are we talking tape backup? Disks? I've seen these mechanical arms that can pick tapes from a stack on a shelf, is that what is used? (example: https://www.osc.edu/sites/default/files/press/images/tapelib...)
For disks that's like ~60/day without redundancy, do they have people just constantly building out and onlining machines in some giant warehouse?
I assume there's built in redundancy and someone's job to go through and replace failed units?
This all sounds like it's absurdly expensive.
And I'd have to assume they deal with at least 100x that scale because they have many other customers.
Like what is that? 6,000 disks a day? Really?
I hear these numbers of petabyte storage frequently. I think Facebook is around 5PB/daily. I've never had to deal with anything that large. Back in the colo days I saw a bunch of places but nothing like that.
I'm imagining forklifts moving around pallets of shrink wrapped drives that get constantly delivered
Am I missing something here?
Places like AWS should run tours. It'd be like going to the mint.