I doubt google sets aside 1024MB of hard drive space for every new Gmail user. I would imagine their capacity management would revolve heavily around intelligent compression and forecasting of how much space people will realistically use on average, rather than how much they are assigned.
I also recall reading that google stores a ton of their information in RAM-based solid state storage, for seek time reasons and because the MTBF of even the best hard drives would make it a constant full time job for multiple people to wander around swapping out failed drives. --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
