Facebook to Use a Cold-Storage System with 10,000 Blu-ray Discs

Facebook will use a massive Blu-ray system for its storage needs. On Tuesday, the company showed a prototype system at the Open Compute Project summit meeting in San Jose which uses 10,000 Blu-ray discs for "cold storage".

After the system was revealed, Jay Parikh, Facebook's vice president of infrastructure engineering, said: "The Blu-ray system reduces costs by 50 percent and energy use by 80 percent compared with its current cold-storage system, which uses hard disk drives."

Jason Taylor, Facebook's director of infrastructure, also commented: "Blu-ray discs are a good option for cold storage because they cost less to buy than hard disks and there's a lot of room for manufacturers to increase the storage density of Blu-ray. We see this as a new area of demand for the technology."

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