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Thread ID: 98662 2009-04-02 00:20:00 Google's Data Centres Secrets somebody (208) PC World Chat
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761685 2009-04-02 04:23:00 Are you trying to tell me 50+ servers with the same info?...LOL, load balancing perhaps, that doesnt help with random access speed though, least not on my servers.

Remember that Google has a very elaborate setup to deal with performance, so it'll be nothing like your servers (or anyone else's servers, for that matter).
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761686 2009-04-02 04:27:00 Are you trying to tell me 50+ servers with the same info?...LOL, load balancing perhaps, that doesnt help with random access speed though, least not on my servers.

They've got their own distributed file system, which is apparently optimised for their hardware choices:

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