$12B per year?
$12B per month is staggering.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Josh Reynolds" <j...@kyneticwifi.com>
To: af@afmug.com
Sent: 3/1/2017 12:44:52 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Youtube Data Storage
Haven't fact check it, but I heard today Netflix is pulling in
something like $12 Billion a month now.
On Mar 1, 2017 11:39 AM, "Robert Andrews" <i...@avantwireless.com>
wrote:
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.
