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Facebook is doing this. They have a video of the machines too! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152128660097200&set=vb.9445547199&type=2&theater https://

• darksim905 12y ago
  That's really cool. I feel like it'll be years before the rest of the world sees that in datacenters.
  • kakoni 12y ago
    In the meantime, keep eye on this guy; http://gigaom.com/2014/03/25/facebooks-open-compute-guru-frank-frankovsky-leaves-to-build-optical-storage-startup/ http://gigaom.com/2014/03/25/facebooks-open-compute-guru-fra...
  • batbomb 12y ago
    have you never seen a robotic tape library? Here's a video of a 40PB library at NERSC: http://distilleryvesper11-3.ak.instagram.com/17aa08ac8d3511e385a412779cede4e3_101.mp4 http://distilleryvesper11-3.ak.instagram.com/17aa08ac8d3511e...