Kim Dotcom Flaunts New Mega Servers: 720 TB Per Rack
Kim Dotcom is tweeting the progress of the buildup of his new sharehosting service Mega.
Scheduled for a launch on January 19, 2013, Dotcom pictured "one of many [server] racks with many servers" and stated that one rack will be able to store 720 TB of data. He did not say how many racks Mega will get, but hinted that "one rack per day" will be installed.
If Dotcom's estimate that Mega will attract 20 PB of data per month is accurate, and Mega, in fact, has only covered the startup cost of the service, then it would be reasonable to assume that Mega will be launching with at least 15 racks to start.
Nearly a year ago Dotcom's home was raided in January 2012. Back then, Dotcom lost access to 1,103 servers with 25 PB of data. While there is no decision yet whether he will be extradited to the U.S. - a court just delayed the decision at least until September 6, 2013 - Dotcom is not shy about flaunting his comeback to the Internet arena with a service that is promised to encrypt data directly in the web browser, and enable users to upload multiple files in parallel.
The current website of the future service still states that Dotcom is looking for hosting partners, API partners, as well as investors.
no he already knows what he needs to..
NEVER GIVE UP NEVER SUBMIT, PERSEVERE KEEP ROLLING NEVER BACK DOWN
they call him a criminal in USA when that is the farking motto
They need to go after the pirating rings that regularly release the pirated software/movies...
There are rings of these guys that even compete with each other on who can release whatever the fastest/before the other...
And these guys seem to be a pretty stable group, they run under the same name for years, and yet, never get shutdown...
Going after freakshows like this dotcom character does nothing. Another data dump pops up in his place...
A rack of Supermicro storage servers is cool, but with all his excess, why aren't we looking at a bunch of netapp shelves, or EMC, or Compellant for that matter?
Looks like he's scrimping and scraping.
Probably the reason why Backblaze doesn't use netapps. They can utilize cheap mass storage with software to cover for redundancy.
They do not offer higher storage density, just different data storage designs and RAID designs with technology to manage all the storage. A rack of EMC or NetApp would actually have less storage than straight servers like his since it would have redundancy built in for the data protection (not to say that Mega will lack redundancy). If you have the talent, you can make these things (servers) your self - that is what Facebook and Google do.
Per rack people have a look at just that picture
i believe he was paying people to host copyrighted material. if you uploaded something and got X amount of downloads he would pay you. guess what gets the most downloads? you guessed it. movies and other copyrighted stuff. so he was basically encouraging people to host copyrighted material and then paying them. that's why they raided him.
I don't believe you. There aren't "groups" out there that race to pirate things. You've got some pretty wild fantasies.
You can tick of many people, but there is the moment you ticked of the wrong guy/group and then things make the 6 o'clock news.
Not a loss to the DNA pool fortunately.
no he already knows what he needs to..
NEVER GIVE UP NEVER SUBMIT, PERSEVERE KEEP ROLLING NEVER BACK DOWN
they call him a criminal in USA when that is the farking motto
Sad statement of fear, good job the ruling class will like that in the future
it is a legitimate business model just not when applied to coppyright material.
Then I believe that you have never pirated anything before...
Good boy.
=D
Nothing to do with that.
He is simply a glorified crook, that's all.