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Facebook engineers say bigger hard disk drives is making one critical metric far, far worse

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March 11, 2025

Hard drives are getting larger, but performance is a problem in data centers Meta sees QLC flash as a solution, bridging the gap between HDDs and TLC With 512TB QLC SSDs planned, Meta is shifting away from E1.S and E3… Read More »Facebook engineers say bigger hard disk drives is making one critical metric far, far worse

One of Elon Musk’s young DOGE engineers explains how he won the $700K Vesuvius Challenge

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February 7, 2025

This week, Silicon Valley came barrelling into Washington, D.C., in the form of fresh-faced engineers supposedly running the government. A bombshell Wired report said that Elon Musk had quietly selected at least six engineers, the oldest of which is reportedly… Read More »One of Elon Musk’s young DOGE engineers explains how he won the $700K Vesuvius Challenge