An update to storage policies across your Google Account

Re:An update to storage policies across your Google Account by est31 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @07:03PM (#25297256)

One of the advantages of being on an exponential growth curve is that this figure has been way lower in the past. Just go back 5 years and it's only a fraction of that. 5 more years and it's even lower. The gmail/drive/etc. data that come from Google's first decade of existence probably fit into those 4.3 petabytes.

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Re:An update to storage policies across your Google Account by sagarm on Thursday December 03, 2020 @10:18PM (#25298503)

The other implication of exponential data growth is that shortening retention periods is only a short term solution to storage costs.

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Re:An update to storage policies across your Google Account by dvfjsdhgfv on Friday December 04, 2020 @08:34AM (#25302054)

I'd say it's the main implication. Google will have to use more drastic means soon. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

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Re:An update to storage policies across your Google Account by asdfasgasdgasdg on Thursday December 03, 2020 @11:41PM (#25299043)

I used to work on a certain Google product and I remember thinking a petabyte was big when our raw content store crossed that milestone. Now Linus Tech Tips can put that much storage in a single box.

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Re:An update to storage policies across your Google Account by gogopuppygogo on Friday December 04, 2020 @01:32AM (#25299645)

I remember about ten years ago when 40TB of usable storage was a mid sized five five figure investment. That’s nas territory now.

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Re:An update to storage policies across your Google Account by bryanrasmussen on Friday December 04, 2020 @01:58AM (#25299762)

I remember a time when 3mb of black market data was enough to get you out of the sprawl. Now you can barely get a Uber downtown for that.

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Re:An update to storage policies across your Google Account by dreamcompiler on Friday December 04, 2020 @02:48AM (#25300022)

Whoa.

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Re:An update to storage policies across your Google Account by nucleardog on Friday December 04, 2020 @03:16AM (#25300195)

Yep. Thats the flip side the the growth is that storage capacity keeps growing relative to price as well.

I spent $600 over a decade ago and put 7.5TB in my server. I spent $600 this year to add another 28TB.

I’m at nearly 40TB in my home server for maybe $1200 invested over the last decade.

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Re:An update to storage policies across your Google Account by asdfasgasdgasdg on Friday December 04, 2020 @08:29AM (#25302005)

One problem that we run into though is that spindle count /random access capability is not increasing correspondingly. It's an interesting challenge.

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Re:An update to storage policies across your Google Account by lokedhs on Friday December 04, 2020 @06:10AM (#25301096)

I remember a bit over 20 years ago when we had a full 19" rack full of storage. It was about 500 GB if I'm not mistaken.

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Re:An update to storage policies across your Google Account by sp332 on Friday December 04, 2020 @09:00AM (#25302262)

You can rent systems from Azure or AWS with 20 TB of RAM.

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Re:An update to storage policies across your Google Account by znpy on Friday December 04, 2020 @01:10AM (#25299537)

Thanks for posting that, most people don't realise how much compute/storage you can actually put on a single rack cabinet nowadays.

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Re:An update to storage policies across your Google Account by vageli on Thursday December 03, 2020 @09:18PM (#25298172)

How is this an advantage?

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Re:An update to storage policies across your Google Account by est31 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @09:46PM (#25298342)

Advantage in the sense that they have to store less. 4.3 petabytes times the age of Google in days is way way more than they actually have to store, as the time period when they were adding 4.3 petabytes daily is short in comparison.

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Re:An update to storage policies across your Google Account by jstanley on Friday December 04, 2020 @01:34AM (#25299653)

So the advantage of being on an exponential growth curve is that today's problems are tiny in comparison to tomorrow's problems? That seems like a disadvantage!

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