On: How big is YouTube?

[zozbot234]

Sure but exabyte-level storage is done with tape, not HDDs.

[mkl → zozbot234]

I doubt any of YouTube is being served off tape. Some impressive amount of its data is probably served from RAM.

[zozbot234 → mkl]

I 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 → zozbot234]

I don’t have ads. No wait times.