Facebook’s New Cold Storage: 10,000 Blu-Ray Discs, 1 Petabyte of Data

Facebook's New Cold Storage: 10,000 Blu-Ray Discs, 1 Petabyte of Data

Facebook has a whole heap of data to store, but much of it sits so deep within our profiles that it rarely need to be served. So the social network has been trying to develop cold storage systems to file older content away—and a new prototype uses Blu-Ray discs.

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