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For a video that is viewed rarely enough they could store one (replicated) copy instead of seven (replicated) copies. Or turn off replication for six of those s
by jefftk 4y ago
For a video that is viewed rarely enough they could store one (replicated) copy instead of seven (replicated) copies. Or turn off replication for six of those seven resolutions.
- zrail 4y agoThey're not replicas, they're different resolutions.
- jffry 4y agoYes but presumably there are storage replicas for each version of the video. The suggested idea, which Google might already do, is to keep the low quality videos in less redundant storage on the theory that they can be re-encoded from the more durably stored original video if the underlying storage fails.