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June 2009
Imation M-Class SSD
Fedora Commons 3.0 Versus DSpace 1.5 : Selecting an Enterprise-Grade Repository System for FAO of the United Nations - Georgia Tech's Institutional Repository
DroboPro Storage That Manage Itself
NAS Adapter from Addonics
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May 2009
The Great Flickr Tools Collection
Articles de Engineering @ Facebook | Facebook
The Photos application is one of Facebook’s most popular features. Up to date, users have uploaded over 15 billion photos which makes Facebook the biggest photo sharing website. For each uploaded photo, Facebook generates and stores four images of different sizes, which translates to a total of 60 billion images and 1.5PB of storage. The current growth rate is 220 million new photos per week, which translates to 25TB of additional storage consumed weekly. At the peak there are 550,000 images served per second. These numbers pose a significant challenge for the Facebook photo storage infrastructure.
April 2009
Wuala - The social online storage
Maxtor BlackArmor 320GB
March 2009
Adobe - Flash Player : Settings Manager - Website Storage Settings panel
Acebackup - The compact and free backup software
February 2009
Still Developing...
Adding persistence is something that we will typically all have to do at sometime in most real world web applications and will definitely slow things down a little; so I thought I’d approach the problem using my latest favourite storage engine, CouchDB
a Restish example using CouchDB
~wingerz » Using Solvent to extract data from structured pages
There is a lot of structured data in web pages. While this data is usually backed by structured storage of some sort, a lot of the semantics of the data are lost by the time the page is rendered in the web browser.
Amazon releases new Kindle 2
click opera - Supersize mind
>Click Opera stores information that I no longer have in my brain; when I connect to this information, I have a way to remember.
This, you can't know and that is the irony. There are things which are still in our brain but we don't remember how to access them. Then suddenly one day, they come back to the surface.
What is happening with the external storage is not the storage by itself, but the search functionality on this external storage. I can have thousand of photos, but if there are not slightly organized (no dates into it for example), there are just a useless pile of bits. The fact that they contained structured information help when we need to access them with tools.
A simple creation date of the file can achieve that. We relate the date to memories of places. Either in your brain or somewhere on the external storage if you write the list of things you have done.
