Facebook Stores A Whopping 240 Billion Pictures, Adds 350 Million More Per Day


Bangalore: About 850 million people visit Facebook everyday, the social networking giant told investors yesterday, reports Business Insider.

Facebook stores about whopping 240 billion pictures, with new addition of about 350 million everyday, according to Rich Miller, the editor of Data Center Knowledge.

To house such an enormous amount of data, the company has built one of the most sophisticated data centers in the world, particularly one that is located in Prineville, Ore. And also the company owns and leases space in lots of other sites.

Facebook said that it will be spending $1.8 billion on servers, data centers, and infrastructure. But this expenditure is only a modest increase as compared to its $1.6 billion spending in 2012.

However irrespective of the money Facebook is spending, only 8 percent of those 240 billion photos account for its traffic according to Miller reports. This indicates that Facebook just can’t use the cheapest but slowest technology to store all its photos, even if majority of them simply consume space.

Facebook to solve this problem, has developed its own software to differentiate popular photos with photos that are not in use, and to segregate them accordingly in different datacenters.

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