# 🚀 Need To Move 1.2 Exabytes Across the World Every Day? Just Effingo

**URL:** <https://onehack.st/t/need-to-move-1-2-exabytes-across-the-world-every-day-just-effingo/288490>\
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**Tags:** file-management\
**Created:** [August 7, 2024, 6:15am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/need-to-move-1-2-exabytes-across-the-world-every-day-just-effingo/288490 "2024-08-07T06:15:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![TheJoker](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/thejoker/32/22660_2.png) [@TheJoker](https://onehack.st/u/TheJoker)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2024, 6:15am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/need-to-move-1-2-exabytes-across-the-world-every-day-just-effingo/288490/1 "2024-08-07T06:15:17Z")

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**Summary:**

**1. Effingo’s Daily Data Transfer:**

- Google’s in-house tool, Effingo, moves an average of 1.2 exabytes daily, equating to 14 terabytes per second.
- This ensures data is replicated close to where it is processed or served.

**2. Efficiency and Priority Management:**

- Effingo optimizes infrastructure efficiency while catering to user needs.
- Prioritizes critical tasks like disaster recovery over less urgent tasks like scheduled maintenance.

**3. Technical Details and Significance:**

- The tool addresses network latency by reducing it from hundreds to dozens of milliseconds within continents.
- Traditional data transfer tools were insufficient for Google’s scale, necessitating Effingo’s development.

**Read more at:** [theregister.com](https://theregister.com)