{"id":13909,"date":"2014-08-25T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13909"},"modified":"2014-08-26T22:37:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T03:37:03","slug":"why-facebook-is-stockpiling-blu-ray-discs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13909","title":{"rendered":"Why Facebook is stockpiling Blu-ray discs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Facebook is now experimenting with a storage prototype that uses racks of Blu-ray discs instead of hard drives. The discs are held in groups of 12 in locked cartridges and are extracted by a robotic arm whenever they&#8217;re needed.<\/p>\n<p>One rack contains 10,000 discs, and is capable of storing a petabyte of data, or one million gigabytes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2014\/08\/21\/technology\/facebook-blu-ray\/index.html\">Why Facebook is stockpiling Blu-ray discs &#8211; Aug. 21, 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is now experimenting with a storage prototype that uses racks of Blu-ray discs instead of hard drives. The discs are held in groups of 12 in locked cartridges and are extracted by a robotic arm whenever they&#8217;re needed. One &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13909\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[1011,419,41,187],"class_list":["post-13909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storage","tag-caching","tag-cyberlocker","tag-data-centers","tag-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13910,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13909\/revisions\/13910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}