What Is Facebook Doing With 10,000 Blu-Ray Discs?
When the average person thinks about 10,000 Blu-ray discs, they likely imagine an impressive movie collection, but when Facebook Vice President of Infrastructure Engineering Jay Parikh and Director of Infrastructure Jason Taylor thought about 10,000 Blu-ray discs, data storage came to mind.
When the average person thinks about 10,000 Blu-ray discs, they likely imagine an impressive movie collection, but when Facebook Vice President of Infrastructure Engineering Jay Parikh and Director of Infrastructure Jason Taylor thought about 10,000 Blu-ray discs, data storage came to mind.
The social network is currently testing a prototype storage system made up of 10,000 Blu-ray discs, which it revealed at OCP Summit V in San Jose, Calif., Tuesday, PCWorld reported.
According to PCWorld, the prototype system was designed with cold storage in mind, meaning the storage of data that is rarely accessed, such as duplicates of users’ photos and videos.
PCWorld reported that Parikh demonstrated the prototype at OCP Summit V, and it resembled a typical server cabinet from the outside, but on the inside, the Blu-ray discs were stacked in piles and selected by robotic pickers, which could move them to one of the 16 burners housed within the system.
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