An update to storage policies across your Google Account

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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