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Facebook’s Photo Storage

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Small Team, Big Impact: The People Behind Photos (video above) from Facebook’s “Life at Facebook” page

Whoa! According to the above video Facebook is currently (as of three months ago) storing roughly 19,000 Terabytes of photos.

The video states that they’re growing at a rate of 1 billion new photos a month (2,000 every second). Based on a VERY rough guesstimate of 500K a picture (half a megabyte) which doesn’t include the various “versions” of a file that they store including thumbnail, “medium” and the full size, that works out to an additional 476 Terabytes in a month. To give you a sense of size, that’s approximately the space required to store 142,606,336 songs… which is increasing each month.

It must be mindblowing to see the infrastructure that has to be in place to not only handle that number of photos but to also accommodate the explosive growth! Anyone at Facebook want to give me a tour? :)

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July 24th, 2009 at 3:25 pm

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Black Bear Diner with the family (and Anna)

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July 19th, 2009 at 9:26 pm

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Off to the lake with @cinamichele @augiepontes Mom and Anna

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It’ll be a hot one… But fun!

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July 19th, 2009 at 11:27 am

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Braving the heat for Jack in the box…

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Weather this hot should be illegal. I’m not sure what’s worse – the shock of 100 degree weather or getting into a car that’s been sitting in 100+ degree weather for the entire day.

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July 18th, 2009 at 3:19 pm

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Troubleshooting Xbox 360 issues for @isaacwexman

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“I feel like I’m 50 asking for help on how to stream Netflix” – Isaac

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July 17th, 2009 at 10:17 pm

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Ow.. Just stepped on glass

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In dad’s office of all places…

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July 17th, 2009 at 1:20 pm

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Home In Redding… Time for bed!

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I always feel bad messing up the bed!

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July 17th, 2009 at 1:28 am

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@isaacwexman freaked out about A Goofy Movie

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July 14th, 2009 at 10:58 pm

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Enjoyed my run… Now what to eat?

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July 14th, 2009 at 8:30 pm

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Diam’s French Rap

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Really liking this song randomly…


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July 6th, 2009 at 12:26 pm

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