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For comparison, 100-200EB is roughly the order of magnitude of all HDDs shipped per quarter: https://blocksandfiles.com/2023/07/11/disk-drive-numbers/ https://
by jl6 3y ago
For comparison, 100-200EB is roughly the order of magnitude of all HDDs shipped per quarter:
https://blocksandfiles.com/2023/07/11/disk-drive-numbers/ https://blocksandfiles.com/2023/07/11/disk-drive-numbers/
- zozbot234 3y agoSure but exabyte-level storage is done with tape, not HDDs.
- mkl 3y agoI doubt any of YouTube is being served off tape. Some impressive amount of its data is probably served from RAM.
- zozbot234 3y agoI mean, it would explain the minutes-long unskippable ads you get sometimes before a video plays. There's probably an IT maintenance guy somewhere, fetching that old video tape from cold storage and mounting it for playback.
- therealdrag0 3y agoI don’t have ads. No wait times.