[jl6]

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/

[zozbot234]

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

[mkl]

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

[zozbot234]

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]

I don’t have ads. No wait times.