How is Youtube possible?

[Blobbenstein]

I mean all that memory....

My first computer only had 3.5k(Vic 20), not even enough for one frame of video probably....

Is RAM really that cheap these days?

 

[Envy]

It gets cheaper in larger quantities.

Possible for a normal person to get a relatively good 6TB HDD for 300$.

Just imagine what a big company like Google can do.

Data centers – Google Data centers

 

[FortyTwo]

Yep. The great thing about data is that it takes up very little actual real space, so if you have access to a lot of space and a lot of money you can have as much storage as you want.