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10 minutes of 4k video is ~30GB.

>>adgjls+(OP)
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.

>>jstumm+m
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

>>therop+O
It's 42 PB per day, though.

>>therop+O
per day*

>>therop+O
> 42 million gigabytes per second

Per day?

>>therop+O
Over estimating by a factor of 86,400.

>>adgjls+(OP)
I feel like this is a bad example.

Most people's experience with 4K video is through a streaming service, and 10 minutes of 4K video on a streaming service is more like 1-1.5 GB.

Or a UHD Disc perhaps where 10 minutes is 3.5-7 GB.

>>therop+O
I still dont think this is what the OP was asking for. This is in the context of an individual-HD video is an individual perspective. More helpful would be a comparison to say a small town or a major city or state.

>>adgjls+(OP)
Based on 2160p movies i've seen around the very largest max out at around 100, and 40 is more common, so this seems wrong.

>>zetsur+Nw
We're not talking pirated movie here, think Netflix and Youtube.

>>Thaxll+Sx
Netflix and Youtube streams are less GB/hour than a typical movie rip. Roughly 3GB/hour at 720p and 8GB/hour at 4K. A decent-quality pirated 4K movie is more like 20GB/hour. A high-quality rip is 40GB/hour.