Facebook Eyeing Use Of ‘Cold Flash’ Storage For Photos, Videos
The term “cold flash” usually brings menopause to mind, but not for Facebook Director, Infrastructure Foundation Jason Taylor, who used the term to describe a new technology the social network is developing to store content that rarely changes, such as photos and videos.
The term “cold flash” usually brings menopause to mind, but not for Facebook Director, Infrastructure Foundation Jason Taylor, who used the term to describe a new technology the social network is developing to store content that rarely changes, such as photos and videos.
Speaking at the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, Calif., Tuesday, Taylor said most flash storage technology is aimed at making access to media faster and boosting its longevity, but cold flash takes the opposite approach, opting for low endurance and low performance, due to the fact that photos and videos on Facebook are WORM (write once, read many) media, which will not require several overwrites, PCWorld reported.
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