Monday, October 22, 2012

Google data storage centre

EVER wondered what happens to your Google searches every time you hit the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button on the search site's front page?
Google did something unprecedented recently, and took its Street View cameras inside one of its own top-secret data centres.
The huge building in North Carolina is crammed full of thousands of specially made computers.
No piece of data is stored in just one place, everything is doubled up in case of disk failure.
Disks fail a lot, so they have their own disk-destroying machine.Video is on youtube.

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