Under the hood: Facebook’s cold storage system
"...since we were using low-end commodity storage that was by no means enterprise-quality."<p>If Facebook (and I believe it's similar with other big players like Google and Amazon) are not using "enterprise grade" hardware (because it doesn't make economic sense at scale), who is? And more importantly, <i>why</i>? Why do "enterprise grade" products even exist if the largest and most deep-pocketed corporations don't find them to be good value propositions?