I know memory is fairly cheap but e.g. there are millions of new videos on youtube everyday, each probably few hundred MBs to few GBs. It all has to take enormous amount of space. Not to mention backups.

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    1 year ago

    It’s far more likely that Google, AWS, and Microsoft are using tape for high-volume, long-term storage.

    According to diskprices.com, these are the approximate cost of a few different storage media (assuming one is attempting to optimize for cost):

    • Tape $0.004 - $0.006 / GB
    • HDD $0.009 - $0.012 / GB
    • BluRay $0.02 - $0.04 / GB
    • SSD $0.035 - $0.04 / GB
    • microSD $0.065 - $0.075 / GB