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nutjob123 on April 25, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon’s Glacier secret: BDXL?

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

darksim905 on April 25, 2014 [–]

That's really cool. I feel like it'll be years before the rest of the world sees that in datacenters.

kakoni on April 25, 2014 | | [–]

In the meantime, keep eye on this guy; http://gigaom.com/2014/03/25/facebooks-open-compute-guru-fra...

batbomb on April 25, 2014 | | [–]

have you never seen a robotic tape library?

Here's a video of a 40PB library at NERSC:

http://distilleryvesper11-3.ak.instagram.com/17aa08ac8d3511e...

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