How do social media companies like twitter or youtube not run out of space for posts? - eviltoast

I know memory is fairly cheap but e.g. there are millions of new videos on youtube everyday, each probably few hundred MBs to few GBs. It all has to take enormous amount of space. Not to mention backups.

  • AnonymousLlama@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’m keen to know about how large these source files are for YouTube compared to the 720/1080 quality ones were see on the front-end. I remember them using really impressive compression but that the bitrate was super low to keep the since small.

    If they’re reducing a 10m 1080p file from 400MB down to 40MB then that’s a good gain