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How Dropbox Re-architected Its Cloud to Use Higher-Density Storage

How Dropbox Re-architected Its Cloud to Use Higher-Density Storage

June 14, 2018

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Dropbox is revamping its cloud storage infrastructure to take advantage of higher-capacity storage technology, which it expects will reduce its data center footprint and cut costs.

The popular cloud storage and collaboration company’s infrastructure team is replacing traditional storage drives with higher-capacity Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) drives.

It took almost three years for the team to optimize hardware and redesign its software to make it possible, Rami Aljamal, Dropbox’s head of hardware, supply chain, and capacity engineering, said in an interview with Data Center Knowledge.

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