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Some back-of-the-envelope math shows that YouTube would have to populate and rack a minimum of four 4U storage chassis (60 20TB drives each) per 8 hour shift to store that much. Roughly a little less than half a 42U rack. And that's before allowing for HDD drive parity, redundancy, and distribution across the globe.


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