Comments on: Facebook’s Spooktacular Scaling for Halloween http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/10/30/facebooks-spooktacular-scaling-for-halloween/ News and analysis about data centers, cloud computing, managed hosting and disaster recovery Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:07:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Rich Miller http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/10/30/facebooks-spooktacular-scaling-for-halloween/comment-page-1/#comment-7783 Rich Miller Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:46:44 +0000 http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/?p=17576#comment-7783 For those who are interested, here's <a href="http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/09/25/facebook-google-ready-for-faster-ethernet/" rel="nofollow">our coverage </a>of the Facebook presentation at the Ethernet Alliance event, which includes a link to the video. For those who are interested, here’s our coverage of the Facebook presentation at the Ethernet Alliance event, which includes a link to the video.

]]> By: SectorX4 http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/10/30/facebooks-spooktacular-scaling-for-halloween/comment-page-1/#comment-7782 SectorX4 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:40:35 +0000 http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/?p=17576#comment-7782 I think Ian L made it fairly clear that he was referring to the scale that Facebook runs at and not a smaller operation where it would be seen as a lot larger of an investment. To understand the kind of traffic and IO that Facebook pushes I'd recommend to check out Facebook's presentation on 100Gbit Ethernet / Terabit Ethernet. Hopefully this will put 40TB into perspective :) I think Ian L made it fairly clear that he was referring to the scale that Facebook runs at and not a smaller operation where it would be seen as a lot larger of an investment.

To understand the kind of traffic and IO that Facebook pushes I’d recommend to check out Facebook’s presentation on 100Gbit Ethernet / Terabit Ethernet. Hopefully this will put 40TB into perspective :)

]]> By: ker2x http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/10/30/facebooks-spooktacular-scaling-for-halloween/comment-page-1/#comment-7757 ker2x Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:02:18 +0000 http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/?p=17576#comment-7757 40TB for a single day, That need to be server ASAP. Not a tons ? Ermmm... dunno where you work, but for the mortal, (even for a (mortal) sysadmin), i think it's a huge workload. Really. 40TB for a single day, That need to be server ASAP.
Not a tons ? Ermmm… dunno where you work, but for the mortal, (even for a (mortal) sysadmin), i think it’s a huge workload. Really.

]]> By: Ian L http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/10/30/facebooks-spooktacular-scaling-for-halloween/comment-page-1/#comment-7744 Ian L Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:54:14 +0000 http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/?p=17576#comment-7744 In all fairness, 40TB isn't a ton of storage when push comes to shove. Yes it's a lot for SSDs or RAM, but it's only about 150 300GB SAS drives, counting a little bit of RAID overhead. Put those into larger-scale storage servers and you've got a dozen servers, maybe two, taking up about a rack of space. Huge for a smaller operation, and that was last year, but a drop in the bucket when you have over 30,000 servers already online. In all fairness, 40TB isn’t a ton of storage when push comes to shove. Yes it’s a lot for SSDs or RAM, but it’s only about 150 300GB SAS drives, counting a little bit of RAID overhead. Put those into larger-scale storage servers and you’ve got a dozen servers, maybe two, taking up about a rack of space. Huge for a smaller operation, and that was last year, but a drop in the bucket when you have over 30,000 servers already online.

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