Facebook To Use Cold Storage At Prineville Data Center For Old Photos
Facebook uses so many resources just to save the 240 billion-plus photos that are on the social network. Now the company is utilizing cold storage at its Prineville, Ore., data center to make sure older photos can be as easily accessed as the ones users uploaded five minutes ago.
Facebook uses so many resources just to save the 240 billion-plus photos that are on the social network. Now the company is utilizing cold storage at its Prineville, Ore., data center to make sure older photos can be as easily accessed as the ones users uploaded five minutes ago.
At the Open Compute Summit last month in Santa Clara, Calif., Facebook Vice President of Infrastructure Engineering Jay Parikh detailed the efforts that the site takes to store photos.
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