Dropbox的第七代服务器硬件：我们迄今为止最有效和最强大的架构

Fourteen years ago, Dropbox took its first steps toward building its own hardware infrastructure—and as our product and user base has grown, so has our infrastructure. What started with just a handful of servers has evolved into one of the largest custom-built storage systems in the world. We've scaled from a few dozen machines to tens of thousands of servers with millions of drives.

十四年前，Dropbox迈出了构建自己硬件基础设施的第一步——随着我们的产品和用户基础的增长，我们的基础设施也在不断发展。从最初的几台服务器开始，演变成世界上最大的定制存储系统之一。我们从几十台机器扩展到数万台服务器，拥有数百万个驱动器。

That evolution didn’t happen by accident. It took years of iteration, close collaboration with suppliers, and a product-first mindset that treated infrastructure as a strategic advantage. Now we’re excited to share what’s next: the launch of our seventh-generation hardware platform, now featuring Crush, Dexter, and Sonic for our traditional compute, database, and storage workloads, and our newest GPU tiers, Gumby and Godzilla. To make this leap possible, we dramatically increased storage bandwidth, effectively doubled our available rack power, and introduced a next-gen storage chassis designed to even further minimize vibration and heat.

这种演变并不是偶然发生的。这需要多年的迭代、与供应商的紧密合作，以及将基础设施视为战略优势的产品优先思维。现在我们很高兴地分享接下来的内容：我们第七代硬件平台的发布，现在为我们的传统计算、数据库和存储工作负载提供Crush、Dexter和Sonic，并且推出了我们最新的GPU层级Gumby和Godzilla。为了使这一飞跃成为可能，我们大幅提高了存储带宽，有效地将可用机架功率翻了一番，并引入了下一代存储机箱，旨在进一步减少振动和热量。

This generation represents our most efficient, capable, and scalable architecture yet—and it’ll help us as we continue to build and scale helpful AI products like Dropbox Dash. Below, we’ll walk you through how we designed the latest version of our server hardware as well as key lessons we’ll carry into generations to come.

这一代代表了我们迄今为止最有效、最强大和可扩展的架构——这将帮助我们继续构建和扩展有用的 AI 产品，如 Dropbox Dash。下面，我们将带您了解我们如何设计最新版本的服务器硬件，以及我们将带入未来几代的关键经验教训。

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