bent_rayner
Re:Facebook puts 10,000 Blu-ray discs in low-power storage system
on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @01:25PM (#7145730)
Tape is still cheaper per Gb. Google uses StorageTek SL8500 and Spectralogic T-Finity libraries to manage it's backups and cost is significantly smaller then trying to do that with spindles.
Re:Microsoft Joins the Open Compute Project, Shares its Server Designs
on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @07:57AM (#7136762)
Google never published any information about it's internal server designs because they suffer from NIH and many times come up with really crappy hardware.
Nobody stole anything from Google. FB's design's are different enough, otherwise Google would have sent David Drummond and his asshole lawyers team after FB. Didn't happen.
Google's platforms team always takes this arrogant approach bragging about their 5 year lead and then come up with broken and buggy products that have to be supported and suffered by various SRE teams.
Their servers are just run off the mill AMD or Intel based design's with a single 12v DC power requirement to make it easier to hook them up to Google's proprietary Ikea racks.
There are alternate design like Manifest Destiny which uses POWER cpus, but they're not in production yet.