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I know that they're not at 3 GB per user, but it's still clear that
the system has scaled remarkably well. To be honest, getting within a
factor of 10 of the 3 gigs per user (which they have done) is probably
the hard part. For obvious reasons, I don't think they'll be storing
any media files that they or a select group of friends didn't sell you
(and that costs them almost nothing). Photos might be their largest
single source. So when you boil it down, the user files (rather than
applications and media) most people have don't actually add up to that
that much. Absent my iTunes/iPhoto stuff and research materials I
probably can't share out that way, I'm almost certainly well under 50
GB.
I disagree about not storing large media files. Many sites like
RapidShare are already trying to target storage and delivery of large
files. The first company to really make this easy will make a lot of
money. Even with that ability there are only so many files out there so
storing them isn't the nightmare that you might think it is. Very few
people are producing large original files. My system users a Java applet
in the browser that auto uploads, stores, and indexes files from the
user's computers as needed and creates a bit torrent network (with some
tweaks) for downloads. I was hoping to make some money from it but I
know I can't compete against Google so maybe I'm to slow once again. :p
That's probably right, and I expect that this will be even more true
if they start storing consumer data.
There is a lot of overlap. I index files from 1000's of mailing lists
and user uploads and a lot of it is duplicates. I'd say that 100TB of
collective space would hold over a large user population and the size of
space Google's population would consume would likely not be more than a
few PB for quite a while.
I'm impressed with the idea, but I wonder why they don't want to do web
hosting. Any idea?
Web hosting is sort of a past tense concept. Most people are less
interested in web hosting than in community, data,and file hosting which
is what Google offers.
--
Michael McGlothlin, tech monkey
Tub Monkey
http://www.tubmonkey.com/
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