That’s a Lot of Data

Facebook recently announced some milestones, which suggests they are maintaining one heck of a server and storage farm. They announced that their users have now uploaded over 10 billion photos to the site. Since they actually store four image sizes for each uploaded photo, so that’s over 40 billion files.

Facebook also pointed out that 2-3 Terabytes of photos are being uploaded to the site every day, and the companies have just over one petabyte of photo storage. They also noted that they serve over 15 billion photo images per day, and photo traffic now peaks at over 300,000 images served per second.

No doubt their data center folks are a very busy bunch.