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by zozbot234 912 days ago
Sure but exabyte-level storage is done with tape, not HDDs.
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mkl 912 days ago
I doubt any of YouTube is being served off tape. Some impressive amount of its data is probably served from RAM.
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zozbot234 912 days ago
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.
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therealdrag0 912 days ago
I don’t have ads. No wait times.
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