First GOOGLE Server
Each tray contained eight 22GB hard drives and one power supply, and the rack itself required no fewer than 86 hand-installed cooling fans
SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT GOOGLE SERVERS/GOOGLE DATA CENTERS
Google had around 4000 servers back in 2000, 100 thousand in 2004, and nowadays probably 200-300 thousand (although some people say 1 million).
They buy them around 10000 units at a time. I wonder when they break the 10 million servers
When Google at last started using AMD processors a few months ago, power consumption was one of important reasons.
Already back in december Google engineers said, that power is starting to cost them more than hardware.
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posted by Parag Kalra @ 11:05 AM
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