YouTube Data Storage Stats Revealed
This article published 2 days ago from Computers.net, YouTube Stats Revealed, Total Viewing Time: 9,305 Years!
“YouTube hosts over six million videos, growing at about 20 percent every month.
The videos take up 45 terabytes of storage — about 5,000 home computers’ worth”
Quick calculation, Oct = 54TB, Nov = 64TB, Dec = 77 TB, and then by Jan = 95TB. Storage needs nearly doubled in 4 mos.
“The total time spent watching YouTube videos since it started last year is 9,305 years!
Good bye TV as we know it.
“The most popular items get an especially large percentage of the traffic”
Think Long Tail, Folks
“The size and cost of running this free service makes many wonder what the future holds for YouTube. Some predict it will collapse under the expense of the sheer volume of transmitted data…”
As you know, I work at Hitachi Data Systems and am hosting the upcoming Lunch 2.0 on Tue, Sept 12th, I’m sure these discussions will come up. Sign up for Lunch 2.0 here.
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Collapse! I’ll take off my YouTube video and donate back the 00:13.
http://www.youtube.com/my_videos
Joann, please leave your 13 seconds. We’ll take all we can get from your exciting life!
I’m still getting the hang of YouTube and vidcasting, but I’ve wasted more than a few hours the past few weeks on that site…
I’m getting a decent response, though, so apparently if I keep churning out videos,eventually I’ll be a movie star LOL
Congrats on the anniversary. Y’all make a great couple. Love to see your Flickr photos. Happy Labor Day
Thanks Robyn
That’s the thing about the modern day Internet, everyone is a star now!
[…] He’s very interested in the Lunch 2.0 event that we’re hosting (since he is footing the bill) and I promised to give him a full report. We discussed the growth in many progressive web companies where regular folks are uploading rich media and creating something new. I told him about the YouTube stats I’ve been researching, and my conversations with online data storage companies. […]
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YouTube could double their storage needs every four months. […]
That story has moved, here’s the updated location:
http://www.techconsumer.com/2006/08/30/youtube-stats-revealed-total-viewing-time-9305-years/
How does YouTube store it’s video’s? Database?
They Say: “The videos take up 45 terabytes of storage — about 5,000 home computers’ worth”
BUT ITS WRONG !!!
Now a days Each HOME COMPUTER HAS APPROXIMATE 1TB OF STORAGE SO ITS WORTH 45 HOME COMPUTERS “ONLY”!!!!
I don’t understand the numbers. The statement “YouTube hosts over six million videos, growing at about 20 percent every month.
The videos take up 45 terabytes of storage — about 5,000 home computers’ worth”. This shows that in 2006 the average household had a 9 gigabyte hard drive. I think its safe to say the average house hold would have 250gb of storage, but more likely 500gb of storage. This is a difference from 5000 computers to only between 90 and 180 computers. I guess YouTube was just trying to be impressive, but went about it in a strange way.