'A disk in a planet-scale computer': Meta has so many expensive GPUs that it's buying SSDs to kill idle time

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Aug 1, 2026, 1:35 pm109 ptsTrending
Meta rebuilt storage systems after slow data repeatedly stalled expensive AI GPUs SSD caching dramatically reduced AI dataset loading times from hours to minutes Meta replaced complex metadata lookups with a faster unified storage architecture Meta says storage systems have failed to keep pace with AI computing…

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