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1. jstumm+ht5[view] [source] 2024-02-01 20:56:41
>>alden5+(OP)
I have absolutely no idea how that number relates to any comparable operation. Can anyone add a banana for scale?
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2. adgjls+Zt5[view] [source] 2024-02-01 21:00:08
>>jstumm+ht5
10 minutes of 4k video is ~30GB.
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3. jstumm+lu5[view] [source] 2024-02-01 21:03:09
>>adgjls+Zt5
Knowing the size of a video file is exactly not the information, that would help me put this number in a meaningful perspective with any comparable operation.

How do I think of 42 petabytes in terms of an ISP? Is that a lot? How does it compare to other satellite providers? How does it compare to 4G capacities? Is this a small country worth of traffic or just any ol' data center? I have no intuition about traffic at this scale.

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4. therop+Nu5[view] [source] 2024-02-01 21:05:09
>>jstumm+lu5
42 million gigabytes per day, or if we are working with 30GB for 10min of 4k movies - 233,000 hours of ultra HD movies per day
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5. WheatM+Sw5[view] [source] 2024-02-01 21:15:59
>>therop+Nu5
Over estimating by a factor of 86,400.
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