How Much Does A YouTube Channel Weigh???
Added 2023-04-21 15:53:15 +0000 UTCOkay... it could weigh less, but for any archive you have to go with the most reliable and rugged medium. Enjoy!
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A Franlab DVD boxset would be fun to design packaging for I think haha, 30 GB dual layer HD-DVD’s you will only need 234 disks 😂. A Blu-ray boxset with dual layer 66 gb you will only need 107 disks haha
Mels Van Wees
2023-04-22 13:46:58 +0000 UTCFran, I too share your thoughts on permanence. In 1983 losing data from a 160K single sided single density 5" floppy disk was catastrophic. It almost never happened, though. Today, storage is so inexpensive and so huge that I can't get anywhere near 2 TB of backup data for all the computers in the house over 30 years. I made a copy of my main backup external hard drive and put it in my safe deposit box at the bank so a house fire could not erase everything computer-related. You might want to do this too since you don't want every video you ever made vulnerable to physical damage from theft, fire, accidental damage, etc. I'd hate to think your entire body of work is all in one place. I sure wouldn't trust YouTube to permanently archive your work. Protect your library! I know a lot of us have learned a lot from your videos and especially the investigation of vintage electronic displays. Your detailed teardowns WILL be MORE relevant 100 years from now since the most of the technology you demonstrate will be literally impossible to find. Will people still play guitars 100 years from now? Even all of your your music content is data very much worth preserving. Nothing on the Internet really vanishes forever anyway. It will outlive all of us.
Matt Wietlispach
2023-04-22 03:37:26 +0000 UTCNow calculate how much a day of your life weighs
Dan Elleson
2023-04-22 01:37:55 +0000 UTCAs I understand it it's about entropy. The fact that there is something other than a completely random pattern on the disk makes it more massive due to the date present. Oh, by the way, I know that means that since it came from the factory with a certain state it might not be at zero (just thought of it tough).
nowt
2023-04-22 00:38:37 +0000 UTCBut what is data? If you took a blank magnetic drive, and filled it up by writing zeroes to it, excluding formatting data, it could still be said to be blank, yet contains data (a long series of zeroes). When you start writing ones instead of zeroes - are the ones heavier? Is there a difference in weight?
Kevin Peltola
2023-04-22 00:32:07 +0000 UTCI should have refreshed before posting. Thank you for confirming my suspicions.
nowt
2023-04-21 17:22:49 +0000 UTCDoes the data not weigh anything though? Not sure whether it's a myth (probably) but I seem to recall an article about data making hard drives slightly heavier.
nowt
2023-04-21 17:20:42 +0000 UTCWhile there is an entropy argument for data having weight, to a first approximation static data weighs nothing. Data in motion DOES have weight, in the forms of the electrons or photons used to convey that data. However, at the lowest level, data is typically stored in stable excited states of electromagnetic fields, with an energy-equivalent mass given by m = E/C^2.
BobC
2023-04-21 16:48:00 +0000 UTC
