5/5 Can anyone who works at google send gmail invites to as many people
as they want? or is it limited to only certain employees who are
involved with gmail?
\_ As I understand it, all Google employees get 50 invites. Everyone
they invite gets 2 invites. Everyone *those* people invite get no
invites except through random luckiness.
\_ that's already at least 1TB of data. how much does storage
cost these days?
\_ compression?
\_ 1TB is not considered a lot of data at google. --aaron
\_ 1tb is not a lot of data. Period.
\_ how many TB's do they have, in anticipation of many
more gmail users?
\_ google admits to "10,000+" machines. make a (poor)
assumption of a single 80GB disk. 800,000GB = 800TB.
\_ no, mass storage doesn't work like this. they'll
be buying mass storage in 100tb chunks in raid
arrays if they're serious. the alternative is they
came up with their own funky storage technique but
it isn't about zero likely to be an 80 gig drive
per box they own for gmail.
\_ Actually that's exactly what it is:
link:csua.org/u/776
They probably put several disks in each box.
Given the time this was implemented, it's
probably 40 gig drives, but hey. -dans
\_ Different service, different needs. It would
be silly to do this for a multi tb mail
service. Got anything that says they do this
for gmail?
\_ If you read your own link you'd see exactly
what went in the boxes. If you did the math
from the link you'd see it doesn't add up
(as usual) to what they claim in the same
article. If you looked at their storage and
performance numbers and compared their costs
to a pure storage solution instead of their
one-size-fits-all "use lots of low end boxes"
model, you'd see that they're actually
getting worse performance and paying more per
tb than a more traditional solution. GFS,
indeed. This is the one big problem with
geeks running the show. They did a very cool
filesystem but it doesn't cut it on the cost/
benefits as a business solution. Too many
techie PhDs scratching itches and no one
doing the basic $$$ math to see if it made
any sense in the real world.
\_ I got invited by a Google employee and got no extra invites.
\_ same here. actually, I take that back, I just checked
and saw that i have two invitations.
\_ Gmail doesn't work with cable modem.
\_ wrong
\_ Where are they? I would like to
<strikeout>sell</strikeout> send out two invites.
\_ It's in red below the search filter and says:
Invite a friend to join Gmail! |