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- Bara, on 10/12/2007, -3/+559,000 years of teenage, half-naked women dancing on screen? +digg.
- Bara, on 10/12/2007, -4/+50Watching porn?
- CamZak, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4645,000 GB/5,000 people = 9 GB a person. Looks like someone used statistics that are about 5 years old.
- Jimu00, on 10/12/2007, -2/+38Um no. Its 45 TB, not 45,000 TB. Someone just has bad math skills.
- Smwbigboss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31Or about 12 holodiscs.
- latova, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27I think about 9,000 of those years are duped videos.
- Abennobashi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28"-The most popular items get an especially large percentage of the traffic."
Really?? NO WAY. - chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22It's more like 400-500 home computers' worth.
- Bob042, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21Now imagine what 9000 collective years could have accomplished OTHER than watching youtube.
- wolvyne, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Then there would be a lot of new ways to watch porn. Right Bara? ;-P
- ActiveMatx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Seagate now has 750gb hard drives. I guess, they only need a SAN that has 60 of those disks on them.
- Bara, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17I believe the correct statement is "NO WAI"
- CatalystGhost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13No, erm, Wikipedia is pretty much the answer for everything. Hell, got me through any class that I've even had to do the slightest research in... and it's given me loads of other info! It would be as good as Google, if it had porn.
- brendanc, on 10/12/2007, -9/+22You're all wrong.
Only hard drive manufacturers go by the 1000 byte system. Everyone else uses the standard 1024 byte system.
SO, a simple math calculation reveals...
45 Terabytes = 46,080 Gigabytes
46,080 Gigabytes / 5,000 People = 9.216 Gigabytes per person
Don't digg me down just because I'm right! (Just kidding, I was just busting you guys' chops-- but really, don't digg me down just because I'm right!) - regedit2D, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12my god, that is really sad
- iDealL, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1345 terabytes seems surprisingly low for all those vids...I always thought sites like youtube/google videos would have petabytes worth of vids. Hell I know a few people who have over a terabyte of storage in their homes, so by that standard around 50 people could hold all of youtube's database.
- metapy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15Zinite: You fail grade school math...
Let's work through this together.
(Using harddrive manufacture definition of a megabyte 1,000,000 bytes to simplify the math)
45 terabytes = 45,000 gigabytes
45,000/5,000 = 45/5 = 9 gigabytes (I even checked my work on a calculator, but I knew you were wrong without one) - LegendarySock, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Someone should compile the total viewing time for pornography... well it would take about 100 years to do but daaaaaamn. Youtube's stats would be rocked around the block.
- Smwbigboss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Please, half those people barely know how to work their camera.
- lowerlogic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Vapid, you mean 1 Byte = 8 Bits
- Fimus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+89305 years spent watching stupid videos?
What if those 9305 years were spent on developing new technology? :( - ElectricGrandpa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You think 45 terabytes is SMALL for web videos? That's a HUGE amount of videos... Most of the videos you watch on youtube are only a couple megs... They're not storing uncompressed DV footage here. 45 is HUGE. And I don't think 9gb is actually that unreasonable. You'll have to realize that people here on digg are more computer literate than most... Go to a lot of "normal" people's houses and you'll see them using computers that were top of the line 5-10 years ago... Not everyone is buying new computers all the time.
- raada, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I just wonder what the archeologist will think 3000 years from now when they dig up the youtube archives... "First they invented Internet and then they went crazy and recorded themselves on video.".
- rodbibeau, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4wikipedia is god.
- NightRush, on 10/12/2007, -2/+680% of all of my allnighters are spent browsing YouTube.
Dugg. - TheCookieMaker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youtube
- mfratt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Kuipo,
PB? PetaByte? Isnt that 1000 TB? 250+250+320+320+70+70 = 1280GB = 1.28TB = 0.00128 PB - Kuipo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6@ iDealL
I was thinking the same thing. They must use some nice compression. I do know that my video that I uploaded to google video had it's quality GREATLY reduced but I still thought there were enough video's to easily make 1PB. I personally at home have 2x250 GB's + 2x320 GB's and 2x70 GB's making for over 1PB after file structure's are put in place. I find it hard to believe I can host 1 45th of their videos. Crazy. - thefirstenemy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Maybe, they just mean most people average about 9 gigs of video. Not that their whole hard drive is 9 gigs.
- kazzyD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You're a little late, Abennobashi (see above) already pulled out the classic digg sarcasm for that one.
- Nearoschyth, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9@brendanc: We know this, as metapy stated above; however, there's no point in doing the exact calculations when the data will be compared to hard-drive standard.
I'm not digging you down because you're right, I'm digging you down because what you calculate is inevitably pointless for use. - marcan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3They do use FLV, both of them. Google video gives you the option of downloading .avi and other formats though (in fact you can only get the flv manually, there is no link unless you use a firefox extension that does it for you or some site like keepvid). Youtube doesn't let you download anything (unless you use the extension), and it only uses flv (shame on them! I'd rather they use FLV than WMV9 though, because at least I can play the former with mplayer on amd64)
In fact, I don't think flash supports any other video format besides flv. - wolvyne, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Makes you wonder where they got their Hard drive statistic? I don't know anyone that's had under 20GB's in 6+yrs.
- Abennobashi, on 10/12/2007, -16/+19***** you
- KMartSheriff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Im curious too on how these sites make money. I know ads are a big part of it but millions of dollars worth of bandwidth a month!? Makes me wonder how long these sites can last, and makes me think back to the original ".com" boom.
- BillyEveryteen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hah, yeah, gotta love those girls dancing to music on YouTube.
- 1024k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Both use FLV on their websites (FLV1 (Sorenson codec) video + mp3 audio). The AVI offered for download by Google Video contains DivX video and mp3 audio. Google adds a list entry named "goog" to the AVI file.
- kazzyD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@Abennobashi
It's simple, yet, many people don't realize the implications of the vast majority watching a small minority of videos over and over again.
It just points that YouTube follows a form of the 80/20 rule more or less (in this case, approx. 80 percent of the traffic is 20 percent of the videos). Interesting, even if obvious. - lp1977, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Makes you wonder how many video cams are recording simultaneously at any given time on earth.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Youtube claims they aren't making money yet. They probably will in the future, but we will see.
- phort99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I read somewhere that Google Video uses AVI compression with a Flash player, I bet YouTube is the same. (That would explain how hideous the compression looks sometimes.) I personally think YouTube over-compresses, but that's just me. I'd be surprised (and appalled) if they used FLV, because there is almost nothing (other than Flash) that can play those, and I've struggled even to find a flash-based FLV player.
...Unless VLC can, in which case I fail at fact checking. - TechnoGuyRob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29,000 years is reasonable. I once calculated (and this is a low estimate), if you take one second from the life of every human alive, that's 200 years. In other words, if it was spread out evenly, each person in the world saw about 45 seconds (45*200 = 9,000) pf YouTube videos.
- Wavey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That's a whole lotta coke and mentos.
- copperkidd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Thought it would have been more. I guess Flash really is small.
- leffunov, on 10/12/2007, -0/+145Tb isn't really large, i know people who have over 3Tb total. That figure has to be way off. And if that figure is right then youtube should be able to work with better video quality bc they're not running out of space!
- Fimus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1But how do they pay their bandwidth bills? I don't think ad revenue would be enough to match those bills. Didn't they make a deal with some news show? I remember someone posted a story to digg about how "digg got me on tv!" or something like that.
- Mooinakan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Imagine the productive things we could have done with that time wasted.
- Tetranitrate, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Well the people who spend so much time watching videos on you tube whodunit be the people to develop new technology, they would be the people that end up serving you fries at a fast food place. So don't think of it as "valuable" time lost, since their time, if not for you tube, would be wasted somewhere else unimportant.
- Zreitan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2id like to see more stats...like who the hell owns youtube? and more detailed stats would be awesome
- AceTracer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+145 terabytes? Even with redundant backups that still seems surprisingly low. I doubt you can fit all of YouTube into a couple of racks.
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