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financials are there. Justin Wilson j...@mtin.net --- http://www.mtin.net Owner/CEO xISP Solutions- Consulting – Data Centers - Bandwidth http://www.midwest-ix.com COO/Chairman Internet Exchange - Peering - Distributed Fabric > On Mar 2, 2017, at 10:43 AM, Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > > $12B per year? > $12B per month is staggering. > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: "Josh Reynolds" <j...@kyneticwifi.com <mailto:j...@kyneticwifi.com>> > To: af@afmug.com <mailto: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 >> <mailto: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.
