Google Update Promises 50% Fresher Results

[dEAne]

wow that's what we need when we're bored.

 

[kartu]

[citation][nom]awood28211[/nom]I am in tech and realize they don't buy SATA drives off the walmart shelf...[/citation]
1) They've once mentioned to have stats about hard drive manufacturers
2) I'm pretty sure they use cheapo SATAs
3) I'm pretty sure they pay much lower price, than what you could gat at walmart

 

[kartu]

[citation][nom]grieve[/nom]we just replaced our SAN which is 96 tarabytes = just under $100,000I would think Googles storage is around $700 a tarabyte (discounted)SOOO 100,000,000 gigs = 97656.25 tarabytes=$68,359,375 if 1 gig = $700, Keep in mind this is not hardware you use @ home... there not hooking up 100,000 caviar black drives.[/citation]
Nope. They've stated somewhere to use cheap built-at-home servers. Probably entire box with memory and what not costs half of 700.