Comment on Will youtube eventually run out of storage?

• PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Your claim that the cloud can lose data because of hard drive failure is ridiculous.

  Yes, that was a simplification of the reality that the data exists in storage somewhere. Killing one drive shouldn’t cause the data to be destroyed, but if you killed enough of their data centers, eventually you would see data loss.

  Services are setup to automatically spin up more resources as needed.

  Eventually, you can find a load large enough overwhelm these services. My point really was that theoretically you could overwhelm the system, but that it is unlikely to happen.

  YouTube is owned by Google. Google is a cloud provider. Therefore YouTube is hosted on its own cloud.

  That’s a bit of a cop-out. I guess I should have said “in a cloud that isn’t self-hosted”. Like yeah if I build my own cloud then I trivially control my data, but that’s usually not the case.

  You do not understand how any of this works.

  Well I’m not in the IT department but I do have a baseline understanding of how cloud computing works. Your data has to “live” somewhere, possibly multiple “somewheres”. If you compromise all the “somewheres”, or at least the locations of the desired data in the “somewheres”, the data is gone.

  source

  • Clent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    [deleted]

    source

    • HatchetHaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You can disagree and claim the contrary without being a dick.

      source

      • Clent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Maybe other people can, but that doesn’t mean I can.

        source

        • -> View More Comments
      • sour@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        what did they say

        source
• flyingjake@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I work in cloud computing and it’s amazing to me how magical people like you think it is. Yes Google owns YouTube, but could still run out of resources if Google chooses, they are still at the mercy of their provider.

  Services may be setup to dynamically grow but they are still consuming finite physical resources and would run out if the provider doesn’t expand those resources.

  The cloud most certainly can lose data due to hard drive failure and other hardware issues; the services are designed to make that very unlikely, but cloud services also have disaster recovery options you must implement if you want to be truly isolated from a given hardware footprint.

  source

  • Clent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So if Google allows to runout of space the it willing. That is quite circular.

    The amount of data YouTube is processing is not going to be affected by a small brigade.

    Please cite when YouTube has lost content because of storage failure.

    Do you understand the infrastructure Google has built around their services to prevent data loss?

    I’m not arguing any fool with a cloud account cannot lose data. This is specifically about YouTube.

    source
• qaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Your claim that the cloud can lose data because of hard drive failure is ridiculous.

  Did he claim that then?

  source

  • Clent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    He modified the comment

    source