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> when the alternative is total obliteration you can crush video down to 1MB per minute and have a tolerable VHS-like experience That's still pushing a terabyt

• estebank 2y ago
  So, a single laptop hard drive a day? 50 tape drives a year? For the biggest repository of video there is? That's literally peanuts. There's some logistics in handling backup tapes, but that's a well understood process.
• Dylan16807 2y ago
  I think you undershot that by a factor of 60. But when I said "get picky" I meant things like not archiving all of youtube. And for articles specifically, archiving every video article is a lot smaller. https://routenote.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/pex-youtube-analysis-2019-total-videos-tiers-700x475.png https://routenote.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/pex-yo... And going by this, restricting to a reasonable view count will cut the space you need by a factor of 10 to 25. If we round that to a petabyte per year, it's not in the range of a typical personal archive, but it's a reasonable thing to picture several big libraries doing. (Though a single person could handle that much if they really wanted to, spending $10 a day on data tapes.)