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" <[email protected]> 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. >> >>
