Do-It-Yourself: Facebook Building Storage Hardware
Facebook is expanding into hardware, and we're not talking about wrenches and pliers: The social network is building its own storage hardware to store uploads from its user base.
Facebook is expanding into hardware, and we’re not talking about wrenches and pliers: The social network is building its own storage hardware to store uploads from its user base.
Former Dell employee Frank Frankovsky is overseeing storage hardware design for Facebook, and he spoke with Wired about how an estimated 140 billion-plus digital images are stored, joking, “We store a few photos here and there.”
Frankovsky said Facebook is following the same strategy it employed in expanding its data center in Prineville, Oregon, cutting out components that did not add value to the process, such as electric chillers and uninterruptible power supplies.
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