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		mkl on Dec 23, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How big is YouTube? I doubt any of YouTube is being served off tape. Some impressive amount of its data is probably served from RAM.

zozbot234 on Dec 23, 2023 [–]

I mean, it would explain the minutes-long unskippable ads you get sometimes before a video plays. There's probably an IT maintenance guy somewhere, fetching that old video tape from cold storage and mounting it for playback.

therealdrag0 on Dec 23, 2023 | [–]

I don’t have ads. No wait times.

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