Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Google Basic Storage...


In 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin were Stanford University graduate students, working on their Digital Library Project, later known as Google. They needed a lot of storage, and the largest hard disk available was 4 gigabytes. So they connected ten of them together and built their own 40GB drive, in a case made of of Legos.

This is an article that I got my hands on through Digg. Actually what brought the interest in me was the way the author dugg the story. He just linked the article to a pic so that there won't be much bandwidth problems. For further understanding of this article Click Here...

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