100 petabytes doesn't even seem that big for Google's index… until you remember that it's kept in RAM http://www.google.com/insidesearch/howsearchworks/thestory/ …
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@avibryant@isaach I was going to mention that but figured the in-memory serving probably only replicates a small recent time window. -
@noradio@avibryant@isaach I certainly assume that 100 petabytes includes replicas, I wouldn't trust that much data to a single DRAM. -
@evanphx@noradio@avibryant@isaach one cosmic ray, and BOOM you’re looking at the wrong Harlem Shake video.
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@avibryant@noradio@isaach why replicate the ram? Reload a machine from hd if it goes down.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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