# A look inside our sixth generation of server hardware - Dropbox

<https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/sixth-generation-server-hardware>

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- Saved: September 19, 2022 (2022-09-20T01:44:51Z)
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## What Jamie wrote

I wish there was more detail here but I find it interesting to see how companies that are competing with the cloud approach their hardware. Dropbox really cannot use the cloud for economic reasons, so they have to go bare metal. 20 petabytes in a rack is impressive.

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