Facebook's Heavy Halloween Facebook Load

Doug Beaver of Facebook posted an article earlier this afternoon explaining the massive amount of storage required to handle the user halloween photos. Each Halloween results in a whopping 20 percent increase of photo usage. What does that mean? Well, last year 124 million photos were uploaded over Halloween. This time around, that number could be double.

To prepare, the company has packed 40 terabytes of storage to prepare for the photos being uploaded. That’s a large amount of storage.

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