Re:Inside Facebook’s Oregon data center
by kshatrea on Saturday August 18, 2012 @03:27PM
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I don't mean to be snarky, but I don't think it is rare for us at all. I've seen a few articles before on the Prineville data center. I remember an article when they unveiled "Open Compute". At that time, there were quite a few articles about it.
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Re:Inside Facebook’s Oregon data center
by chucknthem on Saturday August 18, 2012 @04:06PM
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> I don't mean to be snarky
Then please don't and try to refrain from posting :)
The rest of us haven't seen it yet and there are a few photos of the non open compute servers too. It's also perfectly fine to post older articles and stories here because they are often interesting to the HN community and make for good discussion.
Re:Inside Facebook’s Oregon data center
by mediocregopher on Saturday August 18, 2012 @04:14PM
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I don't think his/her issue was with the fact that this has been posted before or that it's "old", the article certainly isn't, but with the fact that the article is describing going into this datacenter as a rare experience. Apparently, it's not a very rare experience, and calling it so only serves to sensationalize the title.
As a native of Oregon, the mention of "Prineville" and "Data Center" in the same sentence always makes my mind reel a little bit. It's a ways away from much of anything, and was previously known for 1) cows and 2) Les Schwab Tires (which moved to Bend pretty much as soon as possible after Les passed away).
First time I've seen photos, though.
Facebook's been showing this off for 18 months. http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2011/04/09/OpenComputeMecha...