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kel · 04-02-2004, 06:15 PM

Only a VERY small fraction of users will use the gigabyte of space. Don't make the assumption that simply because they offer it, people will need it. And when they refer to 1 gigabyte, they may not even be including compression and other optimizations.

I imagine they could save even more if they implemented some sort of spam caching strategy.
j/k

And frankly, even then... A gigabyte isn't that much space. A single google query takes upwards of 100 megabytes of disk I/O, the smallest unit of granularity in the google file system is 64megabytes! (The standard size in most is in the kilobyte range)

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kel WARNING: FLAMMABLE Location: Ask Acetylene	Only a VERY small fraction of users will use the gigabyte of space. Don't make the assumption that simply because they offer it, people will need it. And when they refer to 1 gigabyte, they may not even be including compression and other optimizations. I imagine they could save even more if they implemented some sort of spam caching strategy. j/k And frankly, even then... A gigabyte isn't that much space. A single google query takes upwards of 100 megabytes of disk I/O, the smallest unit of granularity in the google file system is 64megabytes! (The standard size in most is in the kilobyte range) __________________ "It better be funny" Last edited by kel; 04-02-2004 at 06:19 PM..