Behind the scenes at the Internet Archive
When you are building a digital library to provide Universal Access to Human Knowledge, how to you hold all the data?
You start with a few racks of machines to hold the data using redundant storage:
The red boxes are built by Capricorn. Each one is a 1U half-depth low-power server that can hold four 1TB hard drives:
Add a bunch of homemade routers:
And some BigIron: (this thing pushed 6Gb/s today!)
Now you need to power it up:
And cool it down:
And fill it with books:
For some reason, you need a 1980’s-era Connection Machine:
Finally, no Archive is complete without a world-class Linux kernel hacker:
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