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- shahruz84, on 12/17/2008, -3/+156now i know why earthquakes happen...
bad sector under california? - latova, on 10/12/2007, -6/+116I don't think two tubes is enough to handle all that information. There's going to be some major clogging.
- cpmcd2000, on 10/12/2007, -2/+104That is so great.
But no really? Does anyone have any pics of their set-up?
I am dying to see it! Is it like in Vaults or what? - MuTeD, on 10/12/2007, -4/+69Comparing those tubes to the world, they are a few miles in diameter.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+56For my work, we have a small room in a datacenter -- we have maybe 250 sq ft there. Google occupys/rents/(owns?) a giant section (I couldn't even guess how many sq ft) of this huge datacenter, maybe a third of the entire facility.
And that's supposedly one of about 40 setups they have nationwide. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+51dude, what's the seek time on that?
- datagod, on 10/12/2007, -5/+52Don't forget the moon. That is the tape backup system. And those gas giants? Project managers.
/Ba-bum2 - Snaggy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+52gee, I wish they would have linked to our Joy of Tech page with the comic, instead of taking our comic and putting on this other server. :(
http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/669.html - waitingforjune, on 10/12/2007, -5/+51Buried as inaccurate... Everybody knows there isn't a big hard drive at the center of the earth...
(Just kidding :-P) - richbradshaw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+44One Terra Byte
- JewishPower, on 10/12/2007, -14/+56It's GeoMail!
/ba-bum - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+44@MuTeD:
Well yeah, and polar bears are thousands of feet tall. - ahill7, on 10/12/2007, -2/+38So what happens when that head crashes? Do we get an earthquake with a scary clicking noise?
- Catchpen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36That's about the size of our old IBM hard drives
- archlich, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32What's the rpm speed? So that's where the Earths magnetic field comes from... it all makes sense...
- Xinareiaz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+33OMG NO! you aren't serious! My delusions are destroyed!!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26Nah.... I/O time would be RIDICULOUSLY slow using a platter that big. :)
- Spinney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25this is also the true source of global warming
- jiggidy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23im like 60% sure this was photoshopped. i need another angle.
- Spikito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21well the core is supposedly iron, and it is magnetic...patent idea anyone?
- rAid135, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24It was google who downgraded pluto from a planet, there was just too small to fit anything
- alephsmith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Here is the outside of something google
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=202392381&context=photostream&size=l - drbroccoli, on 10/12/2007, -2/+183 hours.
- mrTribal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15...Vista install?
- jus1haz2, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16link to the real thing
http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/669.html - ostracize, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11We in the storage group at work have been bitching about how the hell they can do that for that many users. My guess is a hell of a lot of disk with a hell of a lot of (probably in house developed) optimization on top of that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_optimization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_compression
I would guess that gmail is as much about providing a medium in which to develop those kind of technologies as it is to present more advertising to the masses. - rig0rmortis, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15japostoles - "Marked inaccurate."
japostoles - "I already made that joke, and I got dugg down... look out! ;-)"
Interesting how you made a joke without making one. - timmay, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11@Ray_Justice
Http://getfirefox.com
:P - isemism, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10@alephsmith:
Thats the new Google datacenter at The Dalles, OR.
Impressive cooling. - person51090, on 10/12/2007, -1/+111/(60 x 24) rpm
- Aeiri, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Well... it does sometimes take awhile to login to Gmail...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12huge polar bears
- chewy5000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7i'm thinking...a goldfish brain?
- gd007, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8i hope they left the space under gulf countries intact. we need all the oil!
- kyleh, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11it all makes sense now,
- subix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Looks like google teamed up with tesla to me...
- mitrebox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6hmm earth as a hard drive
"Abort, Retry, Fail"
"Whatever you do always hit Retry." - bilbus, on 10/12/2007, -14/+19There networks are made up of cheap computers, many of which are packed into custom made shipping containers. This way they setup the node inhouse and ship it to the datacenter they need it in. Its all pre wired for network, power and cooling.
Its crasy - volcomguy32686, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4so it all comes together on why they made google earth, how could we have not seen this coming?
- Revliskciuq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The center should be filled with solid state memory; the planet's orbit around the sun is far too volatile to reliably support a hard disc, rather than setting up a high availability RAID on Mars and Venus, Google should just just pack in the SD.
- NitrousFlare, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Awww...I was expecting something intelligent...
- jvicinanza, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Here is a google data centre in Dallas. I believe that Google has many.. all if them stacked high with 486's
http://www.robinmajumdar.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/the_dalles_google_data_centre_1.jpg - toxicredm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Because geeks have a sense of humor about geeky stuff. This is that kind of humor, live with it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I bet in 1975 that held 20MB and cost $200000000000000000000
- KingLeo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That's pretty much what I had pictured
- thiru, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I hope they allocated a partition for GoogleBay to crush and screw eBay
- okravetz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yeah...but 1000 mile per hour spin speed...not too shabby, if you ask me...
- umber970, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Haha, I wanna see where AOL email storage is...
- chewy5000, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3but i always thought that the earth was a giant hard drive.
How much do you think it holds? - zoombusa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Do you all really think they would have enough room if everyone filled up their email to the max? Heck no... they are overselling. It is done in everything. Data, phone, and now storage. Robbing peter to make paul happy. lol. but its not really robbing when it's free.
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