{"id":9225,"date":"2013-10-17T14:38:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T14:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudnewsdaily.com\/?p=14880"},"modified":"2013-10-17T14:38:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T14:38:13","slug":"take-a-photo-tour-of-facebooks-amazing-cold-storage-datacenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/take-a-photo-tour-of-facebooks-amazing-cold-storage-datacenter\/","title":{"rendered":"Take a Photo Tour of Facebook\u2019s Amazing Cold Storage Datacenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

There’s a fascinating photo tour of Facebook’s Oregon data center on readwrite today.<\/p>\n

Facebook (arguably) owns more data than God.<\/em><\/p>\n

But how to store a cache of user data collected at the scale of omniscience? If you’re Facebook, just build another custom-crafted server storage locker roughly the size of the USS\u00a0Abraham Lincoln\u00a0on top of a breezy plateau in the Oregon high desert. The company’s new Prineville, Ore., data center employs an ultra-green\u00a0”cold storage” plan\u00a0designed from the ground up to meet its unique\u2014and uniquely huge\u2014needs.<\/em><\/p>\n

The piece<\/a> also includes useful links on the tech behind the data center, shingled drive tech, and the Open Compute project that led to the innovations on display here.<\/p>\n

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There’s a fascinating photo tour of Facebook’s Oregon data center on readwrite today. Facebook (arguably) owns more data than God. But how to store a cache of user data collected at the scale of omniscience? If you’re Facebook, just build another custom-crafted server storage locker roughly the size of the USS Abraham Lincoln on top of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,327,353,403,227,1792,1793,352,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-data","category-data-center","category-facebook","category-green","category-hardware","category-oregon","category-prineville-oregon","category-social","category-storage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}