At the peak downloads of Netscape browser back in '97 we were _netting_
a million per day. That was back in 1997. yeah, I could pretty much
spend anything I wanted to keep the downloads going. We foresaw a bump
in downloads coming for the 2.0 browser and I went out and picked up
$200K in SGI processors off their loading dock overnight with a credit
card purchase (Amex Black for the win)... We were very small fry
compared to what's going on now. Probably multiply those numbers by
10K or even 100K for today.
On 03/01/2017 09:08 AM, Nate Burke wrote:
I was reading an article the other day that referenced that youtube
users upload 400 hours of video every minute, or 65 years of video every
day. Is my math right in showing that at an average of 2.5mb/s for the
video size, that's 600 TB of data per day being uploaded? Given
redundant copies being made, Youtube is bringing online over a Petabyte
per day of storage.
Since I've only been involved with Small businesses, wrapping my head
around this amount of storage and $$$ is hard.
Realizing that Google is custom, I'll use Backblaze for some math.
Backblaze will do 45 drives in 4U@600w power draw 47U rack height = 11
4U boxes = 495HD /rack If they're 8tb drives, that's 4PB/rack. If
Google is paying 1/2 retail cost for drives, that's $175/drive, or $90k
per rack (+ Hardware) 6.6kw power draw (+ Cooling).
So every 4 Days, they spend $100k in Hardware, and increases their
electric bill by 8kw?
I guess when you're dealing with Billions of Dollars, a $100k every
couple days' isn't such a big deal.
