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Dropbox announces new gen server hardware for higher efficiency and scalability

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.

Now we’re excited to share what’s next: the launch of our seventh-generationhardware platform, nowfeaturing Crush, Dexter, and Sonic for our traditional compute, database, and storage workloads, and our newest GPU tiers, Gumby and Godzilla. Maximizing system throughput at the server and rack level Reducing latency of individual processes Improving price-performance for Dropbox workloads Ensuring balanced I/O and memory bandwidth These upgrades led to up to 3.57x less replication lag—the delay between when data is written to a primary system and when it’s copied to a secondary one—which made a huge difference for high-demand workloads like Dynovault and Edgestore.

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