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Facebook’s Mammoth Data Storage

Do you know how much data is managed by Facebook everyday?

According to TechCrunch post, Facebook manages 500+ Terabytes of data per day. See details below:

  • Facebook system process 2.5 billion pieces of content every day
  • 500+ Terabytes of data every day
  • 2.7 billion likes and 300 million photos posted every day
  • It scans 105 terabytes of data in every 30 minutes

And the other thing to mention is, Facebook stores 100 petabytes of data in a single Hadoop disk cluster.

Source: TechCrunch

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