Does anyone know how big YouTube's server

[science man]

I googled and found out that google has 40PB in total of its 100,000 servers that are 400GB each. I also tried to google how big YouTube's server was but I couldn't get it. Does anyone know?

[Malpine Walis]

Well, that is an odd question. Just out of curiosity, why do you want to know?

[thideras]

My guess is a couple football sized data centers. You also refer to it as a "server" when it is made up of many many servers. YouTube/Google videos is a very large and demanding site, no way one computer would run it.

[science man]

Well, that is an odd question. Just out of curiosity, why do you want to know?

I was just wondering what could handle what seems to be unlimated data. When YouTube was born I though it was created by a group of kids or something.

[science man]

My guess is a couple football sized data centers. You also refer to it as a "server" when it is made up of many many servers. YouTube/Google videos is a very large and demanding site, no way one computer would run it.

hehe yea probably

[Ben333]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youtube


The Wall Street Journal published an article revealing that YouTube was hosting about 6.1 million videos (requiring about 45 terabytes of storage space), and had about 500,000 user accounts.

[science man]

45Tb ok so I'd say that the phsical siize eh a room filled with server towers.

[Ben333]

A room filled with racks full of servers.

[science man]

yep

[Malpine Walis]

Only 45 TB?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95SYdjRVCR0&hl=en

I would have guessed that it was much larger than that. Just for grins, I checked newegg and they have a server mobo that can take 12 SATA drives. So one could, at least in theory, hold all of youtube on four of those puppies.

[silencer51]

Hold it, yeah it probably could, but to able to serve it to a gazillion users... that's where the difficulty lies and that's why they need so many servers... ;)

[Malpine Walis]

Well obviously, that is why I put the idea into the just for grins category. Realistically, even if it had been a petabyte, youtube has more important things to worry about.

[Shiggity]

Well obviously, that is why I put the idea into the just for grins category. Realistically, even if it had been a petabyte, youtube has more important things to worry about.

like jamming 50 terabytes worth of ads down our throats :)

[Ninth]

I love how it takes more storage to run a MD5 rainbowtables hash on standard a-zA-Z1-0 and symbols than all of youtube XD I honestly expected them to have a -lot- more in content than just ~50 TB

Moreso if interest to me would be the setup of their server network... (hub stratification and the like) in case anyone happens to know offhand ><

[Hitbox]

They did get bought by Google, and by what they did with gmail, I hardly think that their storage arrays stay at a set ammount for long. Plus now they store movies to compare against uploads to make sure no one is uploading films. Plus the clusters of backups in case of an outage/ one of them goes down.

I think, without a doubt, that by the time I post this, another terabyte of storage was just added.

[LilBuddy]

Nasa has this if anyone hasn't seen it:

Leave it to space nerds with money to come up with the world's highest resolution visualization system. NASA's Advanced Supercomputing Division at Ames has created the 128-screen hyperwall-2, a mega display capable of rendering one quarter billion pixels. Hyperwall-2 measures 23- x 10-feet of LCD goodness, and is powered by 128 GPUs and 1,024 processor cores with 74 teraflops of peak processing power. To top things off, 475 terabytes of storage keep the system rolling. All in all, hyperwall-2 has more than 100 times the processing power of its poor predecessor, hyperwall, from 2002. The elder hyperwall was unavailable for comment and is most likely on an alcoholic bender somewhere, complaining about "kids these days."

[Malpine Walis]

What? They didn't use crossfire for that thing?