Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Google Data Centers

Not wacky, just impressive due to the scale and smart design:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9955184-7.html?tag=nefd.lede
They probably have 200,000+ servers, and petabytes of data. Each chunk of data is stored in 3 places, to ensure replication success if 2 servers fail at the same time.

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