this is distributed content isnt it, its not like all of google is in a single server room, so wouldnt that scale up? Somebody talked once about one of the alphabet gubmint agencies having massive warehouse room with a usb drive for each subject they surveil. maybe google does that too
On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 10:42 AM Chuck McCown via AF <[email protected]> wrote: > Off by a factor of 10. Each data center would be good for 140 years... > > *From:* Chuck McCown via AF > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 27, 2021 9:12 AM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > *Cc:* Chuck McCown > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT: Google storage math > > In one small corner of the larger data centers. Those things are huge. > 3000 square feed (including aisle space) against 10 acre data centers. > Each data center would be good for 14 years and there are hundreds of data > centers. > > *From:* Bill Prince > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 27, 2021 6:43 AM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT: Google storage math > > 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. > -- > bp > part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com > > > 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). >> > >> >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > ------------------------------ > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > ------------------------------ > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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