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		batbomb on April 10, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scaling the Facebook data warehouse to 300 PB Most big iron solutions are effectively commodity systems anymore anyways, occasionally with fancy interconnects and coprocessors.

nasalgoat on April 11, 2014 [–]

Yes, I laughed when I got a console prompt on an $80,000 EMC Isilon disk array and it was FreeBSD.

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