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Re:Flash Drives Replace Disks at Amazon, Facebook, Dropbox by lawnchair_larry on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @05:39PM (#4108599)
Doesn't dropbox use AWS? Do they have their own drives?
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Re:Flash Drives Replace Disks at Amazon, Facebook, Dropbox by thomasnno on Thursday June 14, 2012 @05:49AM (#4110534)
The article states that Dropbox store the files themselves on AWS, and the metadata about the files on their own servers, many of which use SSDs.
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