Storage scale

April 26th, 2006

For those of you who, like me, find yourselves running out of disk space too quickly, here’s a statistic to help keep your problems in perspective:

Yahoo Mail’s storage requirements are measured in terabytes per hour.

from Jeff Bonforte’s talk at e-Tel, when he was talking about the ‘SMTP fiasco’ - the spam problem

Possibly related, but possibly totally unrelated, posts include
 "Interesting statistic"  "Online storage - the next killer web app"  "SMTP made, well, complex"  "Boot Camp

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