I look at it a different way. First, they are probably using 16TB drives
(although I don't know). Based on what I've read, 16TB is the sweet spot
for efficient large storage. That said, a single rack a day seems like a
big deal to me. That's 365 racks per year. Yeesh. Talk about real estate.
They are probably having to get creative on where to park all that stuff.
Oh yeah. Monetization too.
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On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 9:23 PM Robert <[email protected]> wrote:
> Only have to limit it to make you pay... Monitization. One of the
> first and richest of the non-founding googlers was the director of
> monitization...
>
> On 1/26/21 7:12 PM, Nate Burke wrote:
> > I got an email today reminding me about the changes to Google Photos,
> > and how they're going to be counting against your Drive storage
> > limit. The email said that "4.3 million GB of data are uploaded to
> > drive/photos/docs every day"
> >
> > 4,300,000 GB = 4199 TB = 4.1 PB
> >
> > So some quick back of the napkin math
> >
> > 4.1PB, Rumors are that Google creates 3 copies of all data for
> > redundancy. So every day they have to provide new storage for ~12.3PB
> > of storage
> >
> > Take an average size Hard drive of ~12TB That's 1050 hard Disks per day.
> >
> > For math's sake, a backblaze storage pod can hold 60 disks in 4U. So
> > that's 18 Drive pods per day. So 72U of rackspace. That's only a
> > single rack per day, Not bad. Data centers are big.
> >
> > If they're getting the drives for $100 each, then that's $105,000/day
> > or $38.3M/year. So providing the storage for all of Google
> > photos/drive/docs is basically a rounding error to Alphabet.
> >
> > Why are they having to limit my storage again?
> >
> > I'm really curious how much raw data is uploaded to youtube every day,
> > but I haven't seen any publicly available figures recently (within the
> > last several years).
> >
>
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