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Re:Google on today’s massive Google+ spam influx: “We ran ou... by carbonica on Sunday July 10, 2011 @03:25PM (#2748398)
Eh, I was definitely lowballing a lot with "a couple grand." You also need to factor in power and replication.
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Re:Google on today’s massive Google+ spam influx: “We ran ou... by moe on Sunday July 10, 2011 @03:36PM (#2748416)
Not sure what you mean. It's still a couple grand when you factor in power and replication. ;-)

For google it's a rounding error either way. They measure in Petabytes, not Terabytes.

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