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on June 13, 2012
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Flash Drives Replace Disks at Amazon, Facebook, Dr...
Interesting that Dropbox is making heavy use of SSDs, as I would think that most of their content is more static long-term than similar data at Facebook, for example.
RandallBrown
on June 13, 2012
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they're using SSDs for their metadata about the files you store. The actual files are stored in Amazon S3.
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