Why does linus need so much space?

[Shadow_Storm56]

So linus had a few videos of the different servers he uses and the sizes of them and i was like wow thats alot of space.... recently a video mentioned about have a petabyte storage and i just wonder, does he keep like 32 copies of each video? like whyyy is so much space needed? 

[MorganO]

2 minutes ago, Shadow_Storm56 said:

So linus had a few videos of the different servers he uses and the sizes of them and i was like wow thats alot of space.... recently a video mentioned about have a petabyte storage and i just wonder, does he keep like 32 copies of each video? like whyyy is so much space needed? 

better to have more storage than less storage

[RevoltTrain]

Because of reasons

[JoaoPRSousa]

He's probably working on a zip bomb.

[Akima]

Hours upon hours of raw 4K / 8K footage. New videos every day. It adds up. You'll see they're always referring to previous episodes/videos so keeping hold of the footage is important.

 

Standard practice for media production companies.

[Shadow_Storm56]

6 minutes ago, Akima said:

Hours upon hours of raw 4K / 8K footage. New videos every day. It adds up. You'll see they're always referring to previous episodes/videos so keeping hold of the footage is important.

 

Standard practice for media production companies.

ok fair enough, i was just trying to figure whare all the space was going 

[KenjiUmino]

On 29.1.2017 at 10:45 PM, Akima said:

Hours upon hours of raw 4K / 8K footage. New videos every day. It adds up. You'll see they're always referring to previous episodes/videos so keeping hold of the footage is important.

 

Standard practice for media production companies.

jup ... unedited raw footage eats harddrives for breakfast - i have my camera output 1080p50 @ 50 mbit/s h264 wich is a joke compared to 4k and the footage i shot for a video that is maybe 15-20 minutes total after editing is like 50 GB or more ... do that evey day and it adds up fast.

 

i also record my twitch sessions to harddisk, wich is only 720p30 @ 2.5 mbit/s.

but doing 3 hours or more per session three times a week fills up the drive faster than i expected

[spellmanuk]

they have a similar set up at the place i freelance edit for between all the servers they probably have about 300TB because there rolling 4k fottage for almost 12-16 hours a day so it builds up FASSSTTT