I Hope Google Doesn’t Ban Us... - Abusing Unlimited Google Drive

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  • @firstname4337
    @firstname4337 6 ปีที่แล้ว +44116

    why don't you just make a zip file and then email it to yourself

    • @agga357
      @agga357 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3591

      Lmao

    • @alltaken0
      @alltaken0 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1097

      lol

    • @nekdo_kavc
      @nekdo_kavc 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2191

      I think that might work.

    • @cheesedays7699
      @cheesedays7699 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2148

      Changed my comment..

    • @RamSlamBamWham
      @RamSlamBamWham 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3202

      @@cheesedays7699 wooosh

  • @namanchauhan245
    @namanchauhan245 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2509

    abuses Google's systems, records it and puts it up on a Google platform.
    _sometimes my genius is quite frightening_

    • @ravinchowdhury5215
      @ravinchowdhury5215 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      Backs up video of abusing Google’s systems meant to be uploaded to the Google platform onto another a Google platform, abusing it.

    • @astronichols1900
      @astronichols1900 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Wait! This just gave me an idea. Encode the data into video frames using some clever method that won't get destroyed by YT video compression, break it up into a few thousand videos to get some parallelism, upload all those to YT as unlisted videos.
      Edit:
      So apparently 8k YT vid is like 200MB/min, so we'll use that as max theoretical bandwidth for compressed 8k, so whatever cleaver encoding method you use can never carry more than that.
      So 370 TB at 200MB/min of video would be 1,850,000 minutes, or 30,833 hrs, or 3.5 yrs of video. So that could be made into 5,000 6.2hr videos.
      Conclusion: Why is no one doing this. Seems perfectly reasonable.

    • @gamingrival4.0gamerboy49
      @gamingrival4.0gamerboy49 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      "I USED THE STONES TO DESTROY THE STONES"

    • @si-ken
      @si-ken 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      *almost

    • @whatusernameis5295
      @whatusernameis5295 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@toomanycharacter also plain text files are highly compressable so you can make it take way less space.
      I also find it quite funny that there is this legitimate conversation talking about never before tried free storage methods lol

  • @kurtwagner350
    @kurtwagner350 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13351

    Have you considered hiring a scribe to write down all the 1’s and 0’s onto parchment paper and just store it in your garage?

    • @SapeHallward
      @SapeHallward 5 ปีที่แล้ว +540

      @@balazs4427 thats a great solution tbh!

    • @RealShaggy
      @RealShaggy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +218

      @@balazs4427 they did the math

    • @firekram
      @firekram 5 ปีที่แล้ว +401

      @@balazs4427 so do 10,000,000 numbers a second and get it done in 9 years

    • @adrianarvizu1994
      @adrianarvizu1994 5 ปีที่แล้ว +305

      @@balazs4427 so hire 2 people to do it then...

    • @sonichedgehog36
      @sonichedgehog36 5 ปีที่แล้ว +448

      If every fan of his subscribers wrote 0's and 1's, he would get insane multithreaded performance.

  • @Door01
    @Door01 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3028

    Someone at Google in 5 years: hey, john, have you backed up the entirety of youtube recently?
    John: no.... Why?
    Someone at Google: then why the hell are half our servers filled up with youtube videos?

    • @squidkid4953
      @squidkid4953 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Lol

    • @shreebatsachaturvedi5376
      @shreebatsachaturvedi5376 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      Now listen up papa John, you have 5 minutes starting from 5 minutes ago to get your face outta here.
      Oops, time's up!
      *Gunfire and Grenaide blasts*

    • @sleepycomposition
      @sleepycomposition 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      lol

    • @user-rg3fg4qv8c
      @user-rg3fg4qv8c 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lol

    • @sinuslebastian6366
      @sinuslebastian6366 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Its actually even funnier because the guy who handles the server room in Silicon Valley (TV show) is called John.

  • @Krish0724
    @Krish0724 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9709

    Linus : We were able to abuse Gdrive successfully.
    Next day,
    Linus : Why is my channel demonetised?

    • @DC-xj9xp
      @DC-xj9xp 5 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      Lol

    • @phlooke
      @phlooke 4 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      @@DC-xj9xp So I was watching this vid and Network Chucks video about the unlimited Gsuite Gdrive. Has google like stopped this from happening or can I legit just pay $12 a month for unlimited backup space. (even though im completely content with about 5-10TB of backup data)

    • @springbok4015
      @springbok4015 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Mime without a Box starts slowing down after 150 GB, I think

    • @phlooke
      @phlooke 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@springbok4015 slowing down as in upload speed? Total data can't exactly slow down if that's what you meant. I pay $1.50 a month for 200gb of gdrive storage already so was trying to see if I should even continue setting this gsuite up so I can backup all my PCs, and have my own little cloud where ever I go.

    • @FakeEgirl
      @FakeEgirl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      @@phlooke just buy an edu email for like 5$ online and you will have unlimited data for gdrive amongs other benefits.

  • @kommandantsigma1732
    @kommandantsigma1732 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11187

    So YOU'RE the reason why Google Photos is ending their unlimited storage? Dammit Linus.

    • @GustavoAdeLeon
      @GustavoAdeLeon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +469

      I was searching for this comment...

    • @felipepradenasmoreno6824
      @felipepradenasmoreno6824 4 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      @@GustavoAdeLeon me too

    • @PrathamInCloud
      @PrathamInCloud 4 ปีที่แล้ว +335

      Google also ended the Unlimited Drive Storage.. just not in a way you would think (it's a bit indirect)

    • @longjohn7992
      @longjohn7992 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Nah man
      We say
      F&£# You Linus

    • @yuvtube1
      @yuvtube1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +243

      Now just wait till the day Google charges you for uploading videos to TH-cam.

  • @computergenius365
    @computergenius365 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5466

    Plot twist: This is just advertisement for Google Drive Unlimited

    • @Ennocb
      @Ennocb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      Chrysanthemum Even if it wasn't meant to, it does make it seem attractive. Or at least makes people aware of the option. I didn't know about it. So yeah, I was thinking the same thing.

    • @der-grashuepfer
      @der-grashuepfer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      This really could be true

    • @adrianc3932
      @adrianc3932 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      It's true, because in this video they clearly seem to excuse Google's dumb limits for paid storage.

    • @RedHaloManiac95
      @RedHaloManiac95 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      This blew my mind. Knowing Linus he would do that just because he monetizes everything lol. This would be a super undercover ad

    • @apollolux
      @apollolux 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Chrysanthemum can’t be an ad for Google Drive Unlimited, it doesn’t have Linus saying a line to conveniently transition from the main video ;)

  • @nealbagai5388
    @nealbagai5388 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8456

    Why didn't you just make 25,000 Gmail accounts and use the free 15 GB of drive space?

    • @ObamaSexGaming2007
      @ObamaSexGaming2007 4 ปีที่แล้ว +383

      bruh

    • @KoushikPaulliveandletlive
      @KoushikPaulliveandletlive 4 ปีที่แล้ว +600

      They have to hire two data engineers for cataloging

    • @KoushikPaulliveandletlive
      @KoushikPaulliveandletlive 4 ปีที่แล้ว +248

      @@luca._. And your data is also encrypted for free.

    • @sauravadhikari8645
      @sauravadhikari8645 4 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      @@luca._. photos go through lossful compression before uploaded to Google photos so the new backed file is not the same as it previously was, some data are lost which may or may not be important but doing so is an idiotic solution

    • @sauravadhikari8645
      @sauravadhikari8645 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@luca._.its Always compressed. But in small amount if less than 16MP (generally unnoticable) but if greater than 16MP its compressed down to 16MP which is heavily noticible.

  • @whtkngofc
    @whtkngofc 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13161

    We will laugh at this video in 10 years time, when we have 100TB USB drives.

    • @obiwankenobi5168
      @obiwankenobi5168 5 ปีที่แล้ว +450

      yeah... 100tb in a usb stick is pretty much impossible due to physkal limitations

    • @whtkngofc
      @whtkngofc 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3963

      @@obiwankenobi5168 That was said 20 years ago with over 100gb flash memory. Now we have 1TB micro SD cards. And you cant even spell physical.

    • @jeffreydevries2459
      @jeffreydevries2459 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1865

      @@whtkngofc r/murderedbywords

    • @alexmunoz569
      @alexmunoz569 5 ปีที่แล้ว +214

      Crystalized memory is the solution

    • @Ramius117
      @Ramius117 5 ปีที่แล้ว +181

      Unfortunately the problems only scale with the solutions. At that time they’ll probably be uploaded VR captures or something like that lol.

  • @cenata
    @cenata 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2637

    Buys a $100k camera, decides to never delete a footage, builds a 1PB server aaaaand.... cheaps on backup! Way to go Linus!

    • @thanosks
      @thanosks 6 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Lol

    • @M4TTYN
      @M4TTYN 6 ปีที่แล้ว +93

      ah.... That's papa linus for ya!

    • @BRoyce69
      @BRoyce69 6 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      if you go out and buy a 500$ camera and a bunch of hard drives to go with it so your total bill is ~1000$ for photography/vidiography, discluding whatever you have to pay to edit it (you probs have a pc its ltt's channel lets call it negligible in this case.) do you really want to have to spend like 100$ a month to backup on cloud, and another 100 a month if you ever want to use the backup... like that's about how this scales if you want to know in like single person channel terms.
      these cloud storage servers aren't meant for 8k archives necessarily their usually for like business files and backlogs, or other kinda of archives that aren't as thirsty as 8k footage for sure lol like pictures and other kinds of storage. their youtube servers are more for video streaming and storage, plus they cap that at 4k anyways. the other enterprises that would store 8k footage would be like film studios, netflix and shit. they usually would have their own servers and wouldn't care about 1000s a month because the budget is on a whole other scale. ie like nearly 100 million for a marvel movie or just 10s of millions for like a lower budget 8k 'cinematic' type project like a netflix original or tv series. still way outside a youtubers budget and ridiculous you think not spending 5000 a month or 100k up front when theres alternatives, 'cheeping out', theres reasons to try out different competing services, and they ran up against a wall with the cap but its not like if googles like you need a different local ip for the machine they wouldnt just give each (of the 5 main) editors an account. they had good options in the video for if it doesn't work out, mostly sure their just trying to see if it works and get some content thats achivable for viewers, but alot of the time with the internet thats just making t worse for those who knew.

    • @JR-en6jl
      @JR-en6jl 6 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      He didn’t “cheap on backup”. If someone buys a $1500 computer and buys a $20 power supply, then that is cheaping out. Linus bought a $1500 computer and got a $200 power supply for $20.

    • @xKrikket
      @xKrikket 6 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      not paying 100k for backup is reasonable.

  • @biffbill6928
    @biffbill6928 6 ปีที่แล้ว +800

    I have been using this solution for over a year now... if you closed it for me as Amazon did with their unlimited file storage system, then I will be broken.

  • @Esshhaann
    @Esshhaann 3 ปีที่แล้ว +592

    Linus 2018: Spending 60000$ for like a huge server is expensive
    Linus 2020: Spends 70000$ for a solid Gold XBOX controller

    • @pyrotechnicalbirdman5356
      @pyrotechnicalbirdman5356 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It was for a customer though, or am i wrong?

    • @the-shork
      @the-shork 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@pyrotechnicalbirdman5356 nope, he's either keeping it or melting it down to sell the gold

    • @pyrotechnicalbirdman5356
      @pyrotechnicalbirdman5356 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@the-shork bruh, the controller would sell for more in its current gold state.

    • @the-shork
      @the-shork 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@pyrotechnicalbirdman5356 to whom?

    • @magusperde365
      @magusperde365 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@the-shork your mom BOOM GOTTEM

  • @terra1355
    @terra1355 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1319

    Normal people just don't keep 760tb of raw 8k footage haha

    • @TheMonkeyButte
      @TheMonkeyButte 6 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      Itz Terra How much of that footage would they reuse anyway?

    • @bFix
      @bFix 6 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      they should use lossless encoders like ffv1 (supported by premiere through directshow) or x264 or huffyuv
      (of course that might introduce problems when you want to reopen projects (you need to tell Premiere where to find all referenced videos), but it'll save lots of space for a bit of computing time)

    • @robertt9342
      @robertt9342 6 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      TheMonkeyButte . Probably very little. There is significantly more footage than will ever be used in a finish product for every segment they shoot, but they never know if they will need it in the future. You know like hoarders, just digitally.

    • @nyny
      @nyny 6 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      The show is now driven by them trying to keep their infrastructure running!

    • @yanisg9295
      @yanisg9295 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      zanityzoozoo best comment ever

  • @evancrazyerror
    @evancrazyerror 6 ปีที่แล้ว +750

    Um just noticed the icon change.
    This is gonna take some time getting used to....

    • @poruks7745
      @poruks7745 6 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      I don't like it

    • @zXLuke4efcXz
      @zXLuke4efcXz 6 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Now they need a new intro. Always preferred the old one, but they've had this for years now.

    • @ok3487l
      @ok3487l 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I like it

    • @j0os
      @j0os 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I think it’s... quirky... it’s... colourful... i like it.

    • @MartinJablonski
      @MartinJablonski 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I like it

  • @thany3
    @thany3 6 ปีที่แล้ว +669

    Google's servers be like "ohh, that tickles!"

    • @9theaman
      @9theaman 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      not even tickles

  • @natsukashitv8444
    @natsukashitv8444 4 ปีที่แล้ว +674

    I really thought they would be spamming the free 15 gigs that drive gives you for free with each google account

    • @BenDavisSkydiving
      @BenDavisSkydiving 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Yep just 50,000 accounts for 750TB

    • @natsukashitv8444
      @natsukashitv8444 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@BenDavisSkydiving I didn't think they'd need over a terabyte 😂

    • @ben_the_potato
      @ben_the_potato 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@BenDavisSkydiving pffft I have 75 k alts created over the last 2 yr

    • @ananttiwari1337
      @ananttiwari1337 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @BitXubse very

    • @ananttiwari1337
      @ananttiwari1337 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @BitXubse why are we both having stronk

  • @bBrain
    @bBrain 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2129

    Google sysadmin: Where TF is all my server drive space going?

    • @Axodus
      @Axodus 5 ปีที่แล้ว +104

      *_(Warning maximum capacity reached)_*

    • @masthisis3914
      @masthisis3914 5 ปีที่แล้ว +170

      they don't even feel it. 300T to google is like a 512 megabyte SD card to Linus.

    • @shivamrocks.singhh
      @shivamrocks.singhh 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Linus : Hold my archive 😏

    • @nazarm6215
      @nazarm6215 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@masthisis3914 their wallet feels it lol

    • @gustofing
      @gustofing 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@nazarm6215 They got like tons of servers with really unlimited storage ( the point where it's hard to even count it )

  • @balwaann
    @balwaann 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8658

    Linus: “Abusing Unlimited Google drive"
    Google: **Sells Linus's data**
    Linus: 😑

    • @fantamagier
      @fantamagier 4 ปีที่แล้ว +98

      But they crypt the data

    • @codykyle511
      @codykyle511 4 ปีที่แล้ว +412

      @@fantamagier if u believe the data "encription" that Google and Facebook offer are secure and keep them from reding it than u need to educate urself

    • @natevemuri9024
      @natevemuri9024 4 ปีที่แล้ว +226

      @@codykyle511 first of all, reading not reding, second of all, you sound like a boomer who trusts a piece of unencrypted paper sent directly to scammers with your social security number on it rather than an encrypted email sent to a friend. Do you write letters and drive them to your friends yourself because you don't trust the mail service?

    • @codykyle511
      @codykyle511 4 ปีที่แล้ว +113

      @@natevemuri9024 Im 22. I use whatsapp for casual Chat like every one else. But I am well aware off the fact that decrypting a whatsapp Chat or an email is childplay. If I wanted to encrypt something I'd use my own encryption.

    • @GambyEspion
      @GambyEspion 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      Tritex Plays no one uses whatsapp lmao

  • @THEBOSS47MLG
    @THEBOSS47MLG 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3432

    Linus Getting 15 gbs “This is so slow “
    Me: Cries in 8Mbs

    • @anddoubleuroobeer
      @anddoubleuroobeer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +350

      I have 700kb internet and this is the best thing in my area

    • @the-cv3kg
      @the-cv3kg 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@sushicaps liar

    • @the-cv3kg
      @the-cv3kg 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @@sushicaps I don't care if you're a spoiled brat

    • @lofianorak8013
      @lofianorak8013 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@anddoubleuroobeer same, do u also love in tadjikistan?

    • @deathi
      @deathi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      theboss47 getting 8mbs and crying
      me: cries in 0.6mb🔄

  • @mokkingbird
    @mokkingbird 4 ปีที่แล้ว +633

    "We're basically terrible people."
    "I'm OK with it, though. I can live with myself."

    • @JURI-Bloom
      @JURI-Bloom 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      so true

    • @TheAurelianProject
      @TheAurelianProject 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I mean Google is a pretty terrible company so it’s fine

  • @subnormal2953
    @subnormal2953 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4082

    Linus: You know what else is easy
    Me: frenetically skips 30 seconds

  • @lildavidthefisherman4233
    @lildavidthefisherman4233 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5937

    finally somewhere to store my "homework" folder

    • @v_eh
      @v_eh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      Gg

    • @ISTAREINURSOL
      @ISTAREINURSOL 4 ปีที่แล้ว +194

      I think the actual google servers would fill up with all of that “homework” In there

    • @nofuntag9582
      @nofuntag9582 4 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      Well the google site is gonna get a little bit wet isn't it?

    • @muhunun
      @muhunun 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Bruh

    • @muradtalafha7275
      @muradtalafha7275 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Sus

  • @johnsundsethvik6918
    @johnsundsethvik6918 6 ปีที่แล้ว +746

    Tomorrow's news headline: TH-camr with socks in crocks crashed all google servers.

    • @IndieMarkus
      @IndieMarkus 6 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      I'm not sure if Google even cares about a Petabyte more or less to be honest.

    • @YamahaYZFR6RJ05
      @YamahaYZFR6RJ05 6 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      the day after: canadian tech youtuber dies in horrible accident. rumors are his car had faulty brakes.

    • @dennissmith5405
      @dennissmith5405 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      wow man, why... ..

    • @Keyakina
      @Keyakina 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I pay you 10 dollar and a pencil if you crash a google server, or even better take down google for 0.00000001 seconds

    • @twicethemegapower3995
      @twicethemegapower3995 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Dude... if they were filming this a few days ago, my domain is from Google Domains and for a few minutes one day the servers were down, my site could not be accessed at all. There was never an explanation on why the servers were down🤔

  • @nerdom1610
    @nerdom1610 4 ปีที่แล้ว +394

    Whatever you do, do not reveal your secrets in a youtube video.
    - Sun Tzu, the art of war

    • @izaqui4478
      @izaqui4478 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      "Sun Tzu said that!"

    • @miken3968
      @miken3968 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Don´t believe everything you see on the Internet. - Abraham Lincoln

    • @mymom69420
      @mymom69420 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol

    • @visioningfaun85
      @visioningfaun85 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You fool, you moron

    • @aryanbaibaswata2092
      @aryanbaibaswata2092 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD

  • @deimantas2754
    @deimantas2754 6 ปีที่แล้ว +529

    This is like the first time I've seen Linus being conservative about money

    • @larrylentini5688
      @larrylentini5688 6 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      You clearly haven't seen his car

    • @cpp25
      @cpp25 6 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      You kidding? He's so tight, he squeaks when he walks.

    • @WhyteLis21
      @WhyteLis21 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      CrystalGaming Pro yep the fact they spend 6 figures on a 8k red camera I don't think linus is going to spend anymore after that. 😁

    • @skullcandy14785
      @skullcandy14785 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      WhyteLis21 isn’t one 8k red camera like a quarter of a million?

    • @WhyteLis21
      @WhyteLis21 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      skullcandy14785 i think your talking about imax camera not red cameras. I think the 8k red camera was around 50 to 60k. But if your including all the accessory like linus did it was over the 6 figure cost. Just watch their red camera review. It's crazy! 😁

  • @edgovan1
    @edgovan1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1212

    You can upload a single file of up to 5TB even if it goes over your 750gb limit. So, you could first upload 749gb and then upload a 5TB zip file...

    • @tubbycustard8866
      @tubbycustard8866 5 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      HAHA really omggg

    • @Leonardo-hy3qj
      @Leonardo-hy3qj 5 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      Or a 100mb archive containing 700tb of data

    • @iambenmitchell
      @iambenmitchell 5 ปีที่แล้ว +138

      @@Leonardo-hy3qj No archiving algorithm right now is capable of turning 700tb into 100mb

    • @kitsunekaze93
      @kitsunekaze93 5 ปีที่แล้ว +106

      @@iambenmitchell no archiving algorith in the future will ever be able to do that, why? basically entropy. there is a miminum amount of data needed to losslessly reconstruct something.

    • @Leonardo-hy3qj
      @Leonardo-hy3qj 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@iambenmitchell time ago an engineer demonstrated how he could compress a 1.5pb into a 50mb file, I dunno how he did it but he did it

  • @sharkinahat
    @sharkinahat 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4953

    Just make some torrents and give us a magnet link. There's 6.6 million of us, you'll have the biggest distributed backup stored for free.

    • @willhardcastle2643
      @willhardcastle2643 6 ปีที่แล้ว +186

      Yes!

    • @shadowxgames3606
      @shadowxgames3606 6 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Great idea

    • @SamuelLing
      @SamuelLing 6 ปีที่แล้ว +318

      No everyone have 1 petabyte in their pc

    • @xervoo6419
      @xervoo6419 6 ปีที่แล้ว +181

      Now, what happens if a persons computer crashes. I am guessing that there is a lot of redundancy, as in multiple users have the same data. What happens if they ever need the data. Would all pcs need to be on for them to be able to download it? Not crapping on your idea, just genuinely curious how it would work.

    • @gingernut5057
      @gingernut5057 6 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Wouldn't offline computers cause corruption?

  • @Waleedkkhan594
    @Waleedkkhan594 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1129

    "Google saw us bastards coming from a mile" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @DiNitride
    @DiNitride 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1656

    Paying $100,000 to backup the critical data for your company
    Linus: "Nah"
    Paying £100,000 to build one big boi PC to run multiple editors off
    Linus: "Seems like a reasonable use of money"

    • @DiNitride
      @DiNitride 6 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      @Jalau I know, was making a joke

    • @GottZ
      @GottZ 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      in addition, it's conserved money. they don't pay it consecutively

    • @UnL1k3
      @UnL1k3 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @Jalau r/whooosh

    • @zankeikizannanji9545
      @zankeikizannanji9545 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It's a meeeeeme you dip!

    • @RonWolfHowl
      @RonWolfHowl 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@DiNitride I actually didn’t realize that at first and appreciated the additional context

  • @adam346
    @adam346 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1534

    way to go linus... *gets banned from google* Linus: at least we got a good video out of it.

    • @jjppmm29
      @jjppmm29 6 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      at least I was here before it got pulled from youtube 😩👌

    • @edwardsdean
      @edwardsdean 6 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Linus is encrypting all his uploads so google isnt able to compress it

    • @duncanward6226
      @duncanward6226 6 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Imagine getting banned from all of Google and having to use Bing for the rest of your life.

    • @vigneshvanjinathan634
      @vigneshvanjinathan634 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I got my personal google account disabled for no reason, last month. I am just trying and trying and trying to get back my account by filling the forms.... Lost my access to all my personal media stored! ಥ_ಥ

    • @jjppmm29
      @jjppmm29 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      first they will compress it down to 1080, then 720...
      next thing you know
      bam
      none of his videos make it past 144
      after everyone forgets about LTT on youtube they remove the channel
      ☠ RIP LTT ☠

  • @memo-sn1gu
    @memo-sn1gu 5 ปีที่แล้ว +536

    I download few GBs in hours and i'm okay with it
    He uploads 20 TBs in hours and thinks it's slow

    • @paulelderson934
      @paulelderson934 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      about 28 TB in upwards of 168 hours.
      40MB/s isn't that crazy in network speed, there's plenty of home connections with this speed. I'd say it's pretty darn slow for a company that generates this much data.
      I get 25MB/s and I don't even have the most expensive ISP consumer package.
      10Gbps isn't a crazy speed for companies with a large data stream. That would amount to 1250 MB/s, for comparison.

    • @nils895
      @nils895 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Nice, I got 1mb/s in download. German Alps.

    • @pinospin9588
      @pinospin9588 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      tachyon speed network?!

    • @Xvladin
      @Xvladin 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pinospin9588 tach-tach-tach-tac.... hyon?

    • @Xvladin
      @Xvladin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      "A few" GBs in hours is pretty unreasonable these days. My internet speeds are sub gigabit and I can download a 20GB 4k HDR "Linux ISO" in less than 30 minutes

  • @AngryPacman111
    @AngryPacman111 4 ปีที่แล้ว +159

    Ha, now I know why no more free Google Photos upload after June 2021.

    • @java_error
      @java_error 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I see, you are speak england

    • @benflanagan2190
      @benflanagan2190 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@java_error England is my city

  • @turbomustang84
    @turbomustang84 4 ปีที่แล้ว +661

    When I bought my Gateway PC way back in 98 and opted for a 10gb hard drive and figured I'll never need more than that .
    Now I've got 13tb of just music files......

    • @ZayedAbdelrahman
      @ZayedAbdelrahman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      How do u even- nah....

    • @NickPopGamezAndTutorials
      @NickPopGamezAndTutorials 4 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      "music"

    • @bmasseybrannen
      @bmasseybrannen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      limewire search: "grateful dead discography"

    • @tarunkumaar625
      @tarunkumaar625 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Have you got every single mainstream album stored in uncompressed lossless formats?

    • @Casperdroid5
      @Casperdroid5 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Weird flex but ok

  • @enverhoxha2698
    @enverhoxha2698 6 ปีที่แล้ว +270

    PUT THOSE GOOGLE DRIVE ACCOUNTS IN RAID

    • @ruanpingshan
      @ruanpingshan 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      UNLIMITED ...DATAAAA!

    • @enverhoxha2698
      @enverhoxha2698 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      The Google PR team will decide your fate

  • @leokimvideo
    @leokimvideo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +278

    One of the largest losses of data was 9/11 terrorist attacks. It had the whole tech industry rethink how backups are done.
    Overall a nice ad for Google Drive. All the TH-camrs I know had lost their reps when demonetization hit a few years back.

    • @Miko36110
      @Miko36110 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hi leokim
      I knew your channel name sounded familiar xD
      I watched your videos 7~8 years ago

    • @truestopguardatruestop164
      @truestopguardatruestop164 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I know who you are!!

    • @isaackingvideos
      @isaackingvideos 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hello Leo !
      Hows your spider stuff doing !

    • @isaackingvideos
      @isaackingvideos 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Any new Thomas ripoff videos ?

  • @BeeBN
    @BeeBN 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2302

    Google:NOOO!! YOU CANT JUST GIBE YOURSELF INFINITE GOOGLE DRIVE STORAGE!!!
    Linus: haha hardrive go brrrrr

  • @mathlover7427
    @mathlover7427 6 ปีที่แล้ว +922

    What about Google uses this as an advertising tactic? "See? We told you it was unlimited. The most inexpensive and unlimited cloud storage option ever."

    • @ska368
      @ska368 6 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      they loose money tho

    • @36inc
      @36inc 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@ska368 sorta but that's a lotta work. So unless more companies use that exploit it prolly won't hurt em

    • @ska368
      @ska368 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I still think they will do something about it.70 $/mth compared 15k upfront plus 12k$/mth It makes no sence to keep the loop hole; the difference is too big !

    • @GGMEHD
      @GGMEHD 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      It really comes down to the details of the terms of agreement on what you upload to them. For example do those terms say that google has the right to resell that data? Will google be required to give them access to their data immedately? Will linus's face now impair google AI?

    • @MrGedem
      @MrGedem 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      At this point Google CAN'T ban Linus, despite TOS violation - I think, 5 user has to be real people, and not just 5 accounts on VMs (hello, mr Jick Tiny). But Linus is public person, and its better to say "see? We told you it was unlimited" and loss money, than ban him and maybe provocate scandals and statements that it is false advertising.

  • @TGWecho
    @TGWecho 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1855

    Next video: Were Banned From Google(Not Click bait)

    • @thechosenone8808
      @thechosenone8808 6 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      youtube is owned by google

    • @mr.applejuice8546
      @mr.applejuice8546 6 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      @@thechosenone8808 whoosh

    • @jjcoolaus
      @jjcoolaus 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Where would they upload it to though... I only know of Linus on TH-cam

    • @nuarius
      @nuarius 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      TH-cam is owned by google, but that doesn't inherently mean disciplinary action from google cloud services = Disciplinary actions across all Google owned platforms and services.

    • @gu3z185
      @gu3z185 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      you can delete youtube accounts and have a google account but if you get banned on a google account you don't have a youtube account

  • @loukask.9111
    @loukask.9111 6 ปีที่แล้ว +440

    make a video when they ban you pls and what exactly happened :D

    • @accordingone3598
      @accordingone3598 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Cause it's only matter of time, right? 😂

    • @loukask.9111
      @loukask.9111 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      exactly :D 6.6million subs...i'm pretty sure they will at least notice it!

  • @loojiaqi2000
    @loojiaqi2000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +391

    Thats why Google is limiting their cloud storages starting from June 2021. 🤣

  • @RodrigoAPerez-wl6wi
    @RodrigoAPerez-wl6wi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +667

    just go to a bunch of conventions and steal all the 1gb usbs from them

    • @iKingRPG
      @iKingRPG 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Have many thousands lol

    • @stardust6004
      @stardust6004 5 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      Experts hate him for this one trick!

    • @kanevout1406
      @kanevout1406 5 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      @@iKingRPG for a petabyte they only need over 1 million 1GB ones, so like at least 5 conventions

  • @zlatan91lw
    @zlatan91lw 6 ปีที่แล้ว +780

    Burn it to DVD

    • @dani.phantom10
      @dani.phantom10 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      I wonder how many DVDs that'd be🤔

    • @chainedenintenloup
      @chainedenintenloup 6 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      Would be around 212766 DVDs.

    • @chainedenintenloup
      @chainedenintenloup 6 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      And it would make for 694444445 floppies, which would make for a pile 2083333,335 m tall XD

    • @RandomNullpointer
      @RandomNullpointer 6 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      I have a pack of CDs lying around if u want

    • @dani.phantom10
      @dani.phantom10 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@chainedenintenloup I think that'd make Linus' videos literally out of this world because that stack would stretch all the way to the planet Uranus and since the videos keep coming then it could eventually reach to Neptune and beyond...😱

  • @amused7928
    @amused7928 6 ปีที่แล้ว +523

    Google wont ban you, demonitization is a much worse punishment

    • @sebastiane7556
      @sebastiane7556 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      They still have floatplane :D

    • @aidanjt
      @aidanjt 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      And PIA.

    • @amused7928
      @amused7928 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      The only thing ive seen come out of floatplane is a denser luke

    • @sadmanh0
      @sadmanh0 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Google AdSense doesn't add much to their revenue, just person's salary or something Linus said once

    • @jurejelenc3640
      @jurejelenc3640 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ltt doesn't make money from TH-cam's built-in ads, they partner with companies and edit their ads right into videos so demonetization wouldn't affect them

  • @rorymax
    @rorymax 3 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    4:16 the “see me after class” is hilarious

  • @F17A
    @F17A 5 ปีที่แล้ว +803

    The people of the future are going to watch this and laugh their ass off with their 70 petabyte VR games

    • @iZetto1
      @iZetto1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      How about an 1 Exabyte of Micro SD with read and write speed of about 10 Petabytes/second.

    • @huh2634
      @huh2634 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Include me in the museum artifact screenshot

    • @shub3941
      @shub3941 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes

    • @youssefgoldaly1698
      @youssefgoldaly1698 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      dude DOES YOUR NAME MEAN "OF" AKA uff

    • @huh2634
      @huh2634 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@youssefgoldaly1698 wat

  • @Fircasice
    @Fircasice 6 ปีที่แล้ว +708

    I love how the one guy called him Linux

    • @madscientistshusta
      @madscientistshusta 6 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      The guy who created linux is named linus

    • @thinboxdictator6720
      @thinboxdictator6720 6 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      @@madscientistshusta believe it or not, that was main reason I got to this channel :D
      ..not that I would confuse this Linus with Linus Torvalds,but I did have unreasonable (and unsatisfied) feeling,that this channel can have something to do with Linux.. but the content is ok,so I stayed.

    • @honzapat
      @honzapat 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@thinboxdictator6720 same

    • @monday6740
      @monday6740 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I do as well. This is irony; being called Linus, and working on Windows machines :)

    • @smorrow
      @smorrow 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I love how Linus's "correction" was incorrect.

  • @Sam-hj5ok
    @Sam-hj5ok 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3096

    "bastards like us coming a mile away" 😂😂😂😂😂

    • @primezone416
      @primezone416 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@eric25029 haha

    • @ssql
      @ssql 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Prime Zone haha

    • @AYouTubeChannelwithNoName
      @AYouTubeChannelwithNoName 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      What?

    • @primezone416
      @primezone416 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@ATH-camChannelwithNoName your supposed to say hehe or haha you've ruined it how dare you :(

    • @primezone416
      @primezone416 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@eric25029 Hehe

  • @vonbecker6615
    @vonbecker6615 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Google it’s over Linus I have the upload limit
    Linus:you underestimate my power

    • @joelpichette
      @joelpichette 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Google it’s over Linus I have the upload limit
      Linus:you underestimate my minions power

  • @DS-iw5nw
    @DS-iw5nw 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2198

    Hey Linus, can you do a follow up video, are you still using this? Did Google ban you?

    • @dtiydr
      @dtiydr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +236

      th-cam.com/video/alxqpbSZorA/w-d-xo.html

    • @becauseimafan
      @becauseimafan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@dtiydr Thanks!!

    • @puterich
      @puterich 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      dtiydr t

    • @toxiiciity2355
      @toxiiciity2355 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      dtiydr t

    • @Synthels
      @Synthels 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dtiydr t

  • @HarshRajAlwaysfree
    @HarshRajAlwaysfree 5 ปีที่แล้ว +668

    Easy buy a 100 tb SD card from eBay and store in it

    • @Aliff_Klg
      @Aliff_Klg 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      -.-

    • @Ksla
      @Ksla 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Legit what they did ( almost)
      😂

    • @KLRkillerfeeshy
      @KLRkillerfeeshy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      🤣😂

    • @miko8732
      @miko8732 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      😑

    • @mr.baymax6809
      @mr.baymax6809 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      haha

  • @andrewleister-frazier8703
    @andrewleister-frazier8703 6 ปีที่แล้ว +138

    I can imagine a google worker spitting out their coffee over their screen while watching this.

    • @tempest031
      @tempest031 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      They're the first ones to have used this.... Others just found out recently

    • @josephv7762
      @josephv7762 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yeah but this is also great advertising for Google like I would pay $10 a month or so to keep what I have safe and I am talking about less than 500 gigs

    • @Tater_Lord
      @Tater_Lord 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@josephv7762 you have to have 5 gsuite accounts paid for to get the "unlimited" storage so it's $50USD every month

    • @nestormoctezuma4695
      @nestormoctezuma4695 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Rhys Aistrope
      He said “less than 1,000 a year”

    • @josephv7762
      @josephv7762 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Tater_Lord fair enough but I don't need unlimited. It has peaked my interest into looking it up though.

  • @me_souljah
    @me_souljah 4 ปีที่แล้ว +116

    LTT: I hope Google doesn't ban us
    Google : it's free advertisement, go ahead...

  • @Hynet1
    @Hynet1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +247

    *Channel not found*

  • @anchorbait6662
    @anchorbait6662 6 ปีที่แล้ว +614

    PETA - FILE 📂 one massive creepy single file that likes new and untitled young files lacking a parent folder to protect them.

    • @yelllowtaill22
      @yelllowtaill22 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      You're awesome

    • @TheWebstaff
      @TheWebstaff 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ok.....

    • @RedPMD
      @RedPMD 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Anchor Bait Damn that's clever.. I hope I'm not that young file haha...

    • @streamdungeon5166
      @streamdungeon5166 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      nope that one just walks away on its two feet ;)

    • @Mithikayl
      @Mithikayl 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      incredible

  • @JayVal90
    @JayVal90 6 ปีที่แล้ว +704

    Microsoft once had unlimited cloud storage. Now it's 10TB

    • @iKingRPG
      @iKingRPG 6 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      JayVal90 Linus fault?

    • @iKingRPG
      @iKingRPG 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Lol

    • @g35phreak
      @g35phreak 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Thats for a VM disk. Normal blob storage is capped at 5 PB

    • @MichaelFlatman
      @MichaelFlatman 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      nah people used it as long term CCTV backup, like thousands of terabytes worth.

    • @murdochwong3346
      @murdochwong3346 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      First of all, that’s slightly over price. Second of all, only 2 go of DDR3? Third of all, that’s not an intel compute pc. Fourth of all, don’t trust those off brands.

  • @chenglu9876
    @chenglu9876 4 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    Linus: *buys google Business Account*
    Me: Student Account *Yes*

    • @SorSon6
      @SorSon6 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Are student accounts with unlimited storage also under the 750GB limit?

    • @nchannel4u440
      @nchannel4u440 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SorSon6 ya

    • @kekwnet
      @kekwnet 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SorSon6 yes

    • @renaldyhaen
      @renaldyhaen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Can I use this unlimited student Gdrive after I graduated?

    • @SRTTechRestoration-393
      @SRTTechRestoration-393 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Luckyyyyy

  • @r1nc3w1nd7
    @r1nc3w1nd7 6 ปีที่แล้ว +733

    10:54
    Linus: 'We're basically terrible people.'
    Jake: 'I'm okay with it though, I can live with myself.'
    😀😁😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @r1nc3w1nd7
      @r1nc3w1nd7 6 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      8:10
      Linus: 'As it turns out, Google saw bastards like us coming a mile away.'
      😀😁😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @nerdboy8605
      @nerdboy8605 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      LOL

    • @gamingstreams4703
      @gamingstreams4703 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes

    • @ericd.3178
      @ericd.3178 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The video is good but it’s clickbait. He’s doing it the hard way. Use pgblitz @ plexguide.com to push data with only a solo account. It’s good what google is doing because MS betrayed users a few years back and google probably has tech that further compressed and use hashes for repeated data.

    • @Xfade81
      @Xfade81 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +E. D. That pgblitz still utilizes Team Drive and guest accounts. So he's just doing another method wich accomplishes the same thing. Correct me if i am wrong.

  • @Forusall
    @Forusall 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1234

    4:14 "See me after class" I laughed so hard! xD Good...!

    • @YassineOG
      @YassineOG 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      It shouldn't be I.E, but rather E.G, so Crazy was right there, since he was just giving an example of a cloud solution, not a definitive choice.

    • @ixalaz4536
      @ixalaz4536 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      He called him _Linux,_ lmao

    • @bengraham8833
      @bengraham8833 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@ixalaz4536 All over the place in terms of practicality, but seems to magically make computers work better... Yup Linus = Linux confirmed

    • @wmqkla
      @wmqkla 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@YassineOG But the guy wrote "i.g.", so wrong either way :P But I agree there should be "e.g.".

    • @YassineOG
      @YassineOG 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@wmqkla Ohh!! I didn't catch that hehe. Indeed, you're right. Thank you for the heads up.

  • @johnnyjoestar8725
    @johnnyjoestar8725 5 ปีที่แล้ว +400

    me: buying a 128 gb sd card
    LTT: buying petabytes of storage

    • @TristanPopken
      @TristanPopken 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I have 512SD and 1TB HDD Ö

    • @whimsical6
      @whimsical6 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Tristan Popken who asked?

    • @tagwanted1840
      @tagwanted1840 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      no one

    • @Xnoob545
      @Xnoob545 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      My *entire phone* only has 64 gb
      Thats 1/2 of your *sd card*
      Wow

    • @ashleybyrd2015
      @ashleybyrd2015 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mateopalacios4499 Somebody already made your reply more elegantly and without looking like a dickhead before you even did.
      In conclusion; th-cam.com/video/KRB-iHGHSqk/w-d-xo.html

  • @Augnos
    @Augnos 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Thanks for getting Google to get rid of unlimited storage for the rest of us

  • @ahareally
    @ahareally 6 ปีที่แล้ว +533

    Quote "Google G Suite Terms of Service": "You acknowledge that Google may have set no fixed upper limit on the number of transmissions that you may send or receive through Google services or the amount of storage space used; *however, we retain the right, at our sole discretion, to create limits at any time with or without notice.* "

    • @watcheths
      @watcheths 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Your Quote is not in the (current) ToS: policies.google.com/terms?hl=en

    • @ahareally
      @ahareally 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@watcheths Wrong ToS - check the link from SkyeEverest :)

    • @xavireyes9660
      @xavireyes9660 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      The quote is in both links, in the 7th clause at the end of the first paragraph

    • @wck
      @wck 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      That probably goes for every cloud storage platform. They will all cover their ass by retaining the right to change the terms whenever they want. Doesn't matter whether that service costs $1000/year or $100,000/year. That clause will always be there to keep them from getting sued or in case anyone finds a loophole.

    • @watcheths
      @watcheths 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @SkyeEverest how do you find those TOS, they're not linked anywhere I could find

  • @J0E..
    @J0E.. 6 ปีที่แล้ว +206

    Have you heard of Pied Piper?

    • @VarretInxve
      @VarretInxve 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Do they have a fridge on their kitchen set though?

    • @Dogeek
      @Dogeek 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      JIAAAAANNNNNNNNN YAAAAAAAAAANG !!!

    • @DavidNghiaLe
      @DavidNghiaLe 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hahahaha

    • @carlocanlas
      @carlocanlas 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Damnit JinYiang!

    • @Drop-Zone-Music
      @Drop-Zone-Music 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol

  • @Meikurey
    @Meikurey 6 ปีที่แล้ว +617

    Linus is the type of guy to throw a fit when he gets 59 frames a second

    • @wideopenbeaver3471
      @wideopenbeaver3471 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @HexFeatherWhat's your hardware because it looks too weak to run anything at that point

    • @azthetical2980
      @azthetical2980 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Did you know? The human eye can’t see over 30fps? :^)
      Ok, its a joke, like don’t actually believe it.

    • @75ur15
      @75ur15 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Asthetical the 30 and 24 (29.97 and either 23.97 or actually 24) are in movies with motion blur, that said I still live in the land of fhd with 60hz but after my next pc is finished, (I await 2080 ti and 9900k) I will be Loki g to the two new Acer/Asus 4K g-sync 98hz (144 for those who don’t mind chroma subsampling) hdr monitors to see what the change is like

    • @jeffd118
      @jeffd118 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah he’s a bitch baby

    • @emmalent1524
      @emmalent1524 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Doug demuro format is leaking

  • @audaudin6592
    @audaudin6592 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Google recommending us this vid is basically them saying “HEY GUYS THIS BASTARD IS THE REASON WHY WE TOOK AWAY FREE UNLIMITED STORAGE”

  • @RakshithPrakash
    @RakshithPrakash 6 ปีที่แล้ว +465

    Wrap the server with flex tape

    • @buckiethecat
      @buckiethecat 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @Alex The Idiot if it's dead just fix it with flex tape

    • @c1bdc867
      @c1bdc867 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nikolai Mihov it can’t fix my parents marriage

    • @c1bdc867
      @c1bdc867 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nikolai Mihov tru

  • @virtualomar
    @virtualomar 6 ปีที่แล้ว +742

    370TB?
    are u freaking filming 24/7 in 8K?

    • @randomsomeguy156
      @randomsomeguy156 6 ปีที่แล้ว +277

      yes.

    • @cgwelch01
      @cgwelch01 6 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      you got to remember, for some reason, LTT film at a very low ratio on their new red cameras, which means that is is almost fully raw uncompressed data. The fact that shows like Scrapyard do that but with multiple cameras and audio recorders, means that alot of storage is taken up

    • @shubhamadtp
      @shubhamadtp 6 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      Yes he fart in 8 k

    • @zybystyanphyryllangeles1234
      @zybystyanphyryllangeles1234 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes

    • @leinardesteves3987
      @leinardesteves3987 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      And they've been storing old videos/projects as well just in case they ever need it or run out of ideas.
      Also, that includes raw un edited videos so the file size usually be big

  • @tihzho
    @tihzho 5 ปีที่แล้ว +505

    Twenty years from now people will be laughing at this like we laughed at data storage in 2000.

    • @MorganL4
      @MorganL4 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Dude I remember when in 2000 we got a new computer and it had a 40GB HDD. I thought that was huge. 9 years later we had about 3 external hard drives hooked up to that machine. When I went to upgrade it for my parents, my dad insisted on helping and in doing so did the EXACT thing I told him not to do. He swiped his finger across the CPU insert on the motherboard. RIP 9 year old PC.

    • @tihzho
      @tihzho 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@MorganL4 LOL Me as well! In 98 I got a new PC DX4100 with a 10GB HDD and was stoked! I still have the original Win98 SE CD and had since run it on a Virtual Box for grins.
      I have Win7 with XP Mode to run one program - its so seamless having it full screen on a second monitor.
      Ahh those were the days, barnstorming with PCs held together by baling spit and wire, computing by the seat of our pants.. You young kids of today don't know what it was like! lol

    • @gecsus
      @gecsus 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Want a real laugh??? When I got into IT, we did exciting things. Like in 1983 a 5MB Hard drive was 2300 USD. We couldn't figure out how we were going to use all that space. That was in Menlo Park, CA. We built possibly the 1st LAN as an Alpha site for Devong Link. We bought 13 IBM PC's with Hard Drives and it only cost $38,000. Including the LAN. There were no NOS's. We programmed our own pipes. The hard drives were Seagate ST-506's which were infamous for having external actuator arms. Sometimes people would come up and move one and say, "What does this do?", and we would say... "It destroys the hard drive as soon as you move it, but it used to position the magnetic head across the platter inside to get the data off the drive. Not anymore though. Thanks for that." Think about what a TB would cost back then. $2300 for 5 Megabytes. You add it up. ;-)

    • @rishabprasoon5970
      @rishabprasoon5970 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Dammm I still remember the time in 2004 when my dad rushed to home looking excited as hell and told me that we would have to never upgrade our pc again cuz this one has 20 gigabytes of storage , holding a brand new PC in his hands ...

    • @fynkozari9271
      @fynkozari9271 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@rishabprasoon5970 fast forward 15 years, we have 128gb and 256gb flash drives that people carry around like nothing.

  • @ahuman7010
    @ahuman7010 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Google CEO - 'damn we got thousands of people using our cloud servers with hundreds of TB :D we rocking in business
    His assistant : ummm sir thats just 7 accounts doing that

  • @stevenm.2380
    @stevenm.2380 6 ปีที่แล้ว +612

    Gotta love people who announce to the whole world, tricks that you've been relying on.

    • @paulvenn4447
      @paulvenn4447 6 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      Yup, RIP

    • @iimeliodas
      @iimeliodas 6 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      exactly... rip my storage

    • @ChrisVogtmann
      @ChrisVogtmann 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      🤦‍♂️Yep..

    • @McGyver777ATGMAIL
      @McGyver777ATGMAIL 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      It is like telling women that "food and beverages" on credit card statements means strip club.
      .
      .
      .
      Hahahahaha!

    • @succ6414
      @succ6414 6 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      yeah mr rich boi everyone has 20k pounds laying around their wallet

  • @0xEmmy
    @0xEmmy 6 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    TEST YOUR BACKUP SOLUTION once it completes uploading! You'd be surprised how many stories there are of people not realizing their backup solutions don't work.

  • @BharathRaj
    @BharathRaj 6 ปีที่แล้ว +578

    Audio and Video isn't synced at some points.

    • @blurzice7206
      @blurzice7206 6 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      Noticed that too :( Hope Taren wasn't editing
      edit: He was. GET IT TOGETHER TAREN!!!!!!

    • @NocFA
      @NocFA 6 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Audio quality in general has tanked in recent months, there's a nasty hiss coming from his mic too, their editors are getting REALLY lazy.
      Not even mastering audio anymore.

    • @JustOneGuy
      @JustOneGuy 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Thanks god. I thought my audio/video is messed up or something.

    • @MI-qx4lc
      @MI-qx4lc 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      As aways

    • @visualdarkness
      @visualdarkness 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Google is doing it to them for abusing Drive!

  • @ubcphysicsyangbo
    @ubcphysicsyangbo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    I’m just trying to imagine how many HDDs these big tech companies are adding to their cloud storage every single day 😂

    • @damantioworks
      @damantioworks 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      there are literally employees that their only job is unpacking and loading up storage all day

  • @Cornflakes691
    @Cornflakes691 6 ปีที่แล้ว +413

    YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE IS EASY?? *double tap to the right

    • @karanveermultani6594
      @karanveermultani6594 6 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      I always do this,

    • @meltedcheese1908
      @meltedcheese1908 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Bro I just throw my phone out the window to stick it to the man.

    • @sillywilly4566
      @sillywilly4566 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      true lol. Or press the right arrow. Or L.

    • @georgf9279
      @georgf9279 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I always wonder, if they disclose to the sponsor, how many people actually watched through the ad and get paid accordingly. If so, I'd stop skipping the ad.

    • @charlesxav6817
      @charlesxav6817 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Georg F who cares? I’d still skip.

  • @reecewharf
    @reecewharf 6 ปีที่แล้ว +263

    THE LOGO. THE LOGO HAS CHANGED

    • @raaboh
      @raaboh 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      why oh why

    • @macse7en
      @macse7en 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      You just noticed?

    • @edwii321
      @edwii321 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      YOU RITE AAAAAAAAA

    • @Skidd2
      @Skidd2 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Holy moly I did not see that

    • @crystalsheep1434
      @crystalsheep1434 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ya the new one is horrible

  • @leukinthemorning
    @leukinthemorning 6 ปีที่แล้ว +217

    Don't worry Linus, Your secret is safe with me...

    • @rikelbis1
      @rikelbis1 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not today!.

    • @leukinthemorning
      @leukinthemorning 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hey Fake google! I Subbed can I get Unlimited storage?

  • @LHGaming25
    @LHGaming25 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    This abuse system is pretty old.
    I remember when one of my friends made multiple accounts to get the first month free service of every antivirus software.

  • @sinnison23
    @sinnison23 6 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    The timing of that windows update install error right at the end was absolutely wonderful.

    • @trollponch
      @trollponch 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i laughed so bad at it

  • @Mister6
    @Mister6 6 ปีที่แล้ว +187

    I'm working on a commercial Petabyte project. Granted the solution is far higher-end than what you have but we are paying around $350k/PB AUD (which is pretty similar to CAD). Knowing you can do it for around $40k/PB is.....painful

    • @エズカイレズ
      @エズカイレズ 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Forgive me for asking a potentially stupid question. But how is a server more "high end"? More speed? Reliability?

    • @blackphidora
      @blackphidora 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@エズカイレズ probably a name brand SAN such as a vnx, nimble, solidfire. Which really is just custom branded gear.
      Probably HA, redundancy, and a shitty Java powered webUI added.

    • @Mister6
      @Mister6 6 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      This is a NAS, not a server. It includes tools like detailed reporting, dedupe, replication and others. Network connectivity is distributed 160Gbps with a discrete 80Gbps network for internal replication and load balancing. Auto-failover and DR, dynamic namespace, etc. Not to mention 24/7 support and maintenance from the vendor. These units scale to around 30PB if required.

    • @KarelClijsters1995
      @KarelClijsters1995 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      $40k When your data integrity is not important...

    • @CaffeinatedTech
      @CaffeinatedTech 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Where can we find this solution? I'm building a project that requires AU based storage.

  • @TehPels
    @TehPels 6 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    What's the first thing you do after implementing a new backup solution?
    Right! You do a complete restore, to see of it and how it works when you need it.

    • @iKingRPG
      @iKingRPG 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, but that maybe take a while...

    • @chloroformcowboy2162
      @chloroformcowboy2162 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Great reminder. I'd be interested in hearing a quick blurb from them on the result of such a test.

    • @eksine
      @eksine 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      restore fails, corrupts your original data, now you're FUCKED!!!!!!!

  • @kamel3d
    @kamel3d ปีที่แล้ว +4

    After benefiting for this feature for many years I recieved an email yesterday from google asking me to free some space since I am only allowed to use 10TB only or upgrade my plan

  • @FreakinKatGaming
    @FreakinKatGaming 4 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    Linus, hey put that heavy ass server on table so I can tell you to take it off like 2seconds later

  • @HomeAutomationX
    @HomeAutomationX 6 ปีที่แล้ว +316

    That is a lot of storage to have. Good to have a backup

    • @anchorbait6662
      @anchorbait6662 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Back dat thang up! :D

    • @imvirpil
      @imvirpil 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I don’t think that’s even enough for my 16K hentai :/

    • @TheWebstaff
      @TheWebstaff 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      So you click the thumbs up because.... Boobs?

    • @imvirpil
      @imvirpil 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Dave Webster I‘m an ass guy, not boobs.

    • @pikachu5647
      @pikachu5647 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      welcome to the internet

  • @jeb4eyes
    @jeb4eyes 6 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    Google: Let's give them a sponsorship.
    Heh.
    Who knows? hehe

    • @Undecided0
      @Undecided0 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A Chromecast ad played before the video. The ad had a snippet one of Linus' videos. Weird!

  • @TaylorAmes
    @TaylorAmes 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Berkel still had the best solution - Print every frame of every video on paper and store it that way.

  • @pietermantel9498
    @pietermantel9498 6 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    Your ISP isn't the problem when uploading things to the cloud, just put two storinators on a floatplane and fly up, and if it rains you're in the cloud(s) in no time!

    • @PP-ky2ji
      @PP-ky2ji 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wrong I pick up phones in India and help people with their pcs I'm smarter than you and you're wrong

  • @AgilityDZN
    @AgilityDZN 5 ปีที่แล้ว +253

    *Linus: has half a human brain's worth of storage*
    *Also Linus: G O O G L E D R I V E*

    • @Preposter
      @Preposter 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Isn't it larger?

    • @alejandronavarro113
      @alejandronavarro113 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Preposter apparently the human brain has the capacity equivalent to 2.5 petabytes... :V

    • @Preposter
      @Preposter 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@alejandronavarro113 damn, brain small af.
      No wonder we're stupid.

    • @alejandronavarro113
      @alejandronavarro113 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@Preposter Is it tho!? I know you're partially joking but consider this: 1 hour of video with audio file at 720p and 25fps would take around 1gb of space. So you could fit 1 million hours of HD video in a petabyte and 2.5 million hours in a human brain (that's 285 years!!!). So our brain could in theory save over 3 average human lifespans of video, literally remembering every single knowledge you could take in that time.
      Of course, our brain is more efficient than that and doesn't record video per se, it kinda can record knowledge without having to remember the full audio/image you took the knowledge from. So we could literally study all our life and we wouldn't be close to reaching our physical limit.
      To be fair, we don't learn something like 2×2=4 as fast as a computer can BUT understand when we learn something, we don't just learn that crude data but instead we have a billion processes in our head that let us understand the data in a hugely complex and deep way.
      Finally, our brain has more abilities than storage capacity; it can do processes, analyze and assimilate info, it can CREATE new data and of course it can also communicate via the nervous system and chemically with the whole body to make it work. So our brain is truly amazing IMO
      Conclusion: I do agree we are stupid, but it's not because of our brain's capacity!

    • @Preposter
      @Preposter 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@alejandronavarro113 Yeah, I was joking ..

  • @ariedge2435
    @ariedge2435 6 ปีที่แล้ว +404

    i did not see any ads on this video linus...

    • @yousifnael6825
      @yousifnael6825 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Me too xD

    • @PeacefulCountryLife
      @PeacefulCountryLife 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      I see what you did there :)

    • @MrSam_Derp_Man
      @MrSam_Derp_Man 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The end

    • @Dave.83
      @Dave.83 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      And that's why they sponsor companies themselves in the videos

    • @joeyaktosh8294
      @joeyaktosh8294 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Google is retaliating

  • @ilovehansennnnn
    @ilovehansennnnn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +137

    "I hope Google dont ban us"
    Post in Google platform

    • @jorihiukka6483
      @jorihiukka6483 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That was the joke.

    • @togwam
      @togwam 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That’s like ridiculing or criticizing mark zuckerburg on Facebook

  • @benitollan
    @benitollan 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1817

    Jokes aside, I hope Google don't dare *drop* you guys. I would be very angry.

    • @danielllitpek2014
      @danielllitpek2014 6 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      I think they cant. Google said what theyll do, when they get paid by them and they have to stick to that. I may be wrong, but I'm sure that I'm right

    • @diqqymiccy7189
      @diqqymiccy7189 6 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      Yes, only Linus himself is allowed to *drop* anything

    • @AritroVlogs
      @AritroVlogs 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      It's more likely for Linus to drop google tbh

    • @zealotmaster1
      @zealotmaster1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      and we wouldn't like him when he's angry no wait hulks away angry these days

    • @FurNaxxYT
      @FurNaxxYT 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Dominik Dobrotić isn't he paying for each user so does that really matter?

  • @Musikvidedo
    @Musikvidedo 6 ปีที่แล้ว +584

    Just put the Server in a giant safe

    • @NenadKralj
      @NenadKralj 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @Andy That is pretty good idea (:

    • @coffeeagent1
      @coffeeagent1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Get your ass to the NSA son! You are an idea man!!

    • @madscientistshusta
      @madscientistshusta 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@coffeeagent1 rent a lockbox space at the bank 🤣

    • @coffeeagent1
      @coffeeagent1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@madscientistshusta Even better man! No one ever breaks into a bank

    • @rexy_1000
      @rexy_1000 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      You would need ventilation

  • @jakokaj7003
    @jakokaj7003 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Been on a binge LTT since I discovered you guys.
    I really appreciate how linus givens credit to another for their ideas instead of stealing it to inflate his image.

  • @masterofcosmos
    @masterofcosmos 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Linus in 2018: Google gives Unlimited storage, let's use it to its ultimate
    Google in 2021: No, no more

  • @AminAliyar
    @AminAliyar 6 ปีที่แล้ว +97

    The upside down NES cartridge pillow was waaaaaaaay too distracting...

  • @Photosounder
    @Photosounder 6 ปีที่แล้ว +254

    The interest of having RAW footage is you can do lots of stuff in post without losing more quality than necessary. But are you ever gonna go back to some footage from 2016 and say "wow I really need to change the exposure, white balance and colour grading to include footage from this old video into my new one, and it has to have top notch quality"? The answer is no. Just compress it to an overkill bitrate with no chroma subsampling and it will still be just as good for 100x less storage.Mostly when your footage is out of focus half the time that anything moves. No one cares about RAW footage from years ago, just convert it to h.264 or delete it.

    • @humanoid144
      @humanoid144 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Photosounder Photosounder what if youtube deletes it.

    • @necruciferelemangel2839
      @necruciferelemangel2839 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      also for legal reasons, its like keeping your important paperwork kuz you just never know.

    • @andrewyork3869
      @andrewyork3869 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@allahdivinecipher If you can say like what?

    • @tFighterPilot
      @tFighterPilot 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah, it feels kind of like hoarding

  • @faolor6468
    @faolor6468 5 ปีที่แล้ว +296

    I actually have a total of 300gb for free on Google drive
    I made 20 gosh darn accounts
    All with the same password

    • @hogrideeeeer
      @hogrideeeeer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Lol but it's spreadt over 20 accounts

    • @faolor6468
      @faolor6468 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      @@hogrideeeeer yes but hey free 300gb

    • @xxcr4ckzzxx840
      @xxcr4ckzzxx840 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Just use Backblaze as a Private Person, pay 60 Dollars a year and Backup as much as u want ?

    • @danielarsivana5991
      @danielarsivana5991 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      but i have unlimited google drive storage
      i have gavilan college account 😁

    • @aceflarezero5821
      @aceflarezero5821 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Whats the password

  • @yogasounds1
    @yogasounds1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Can you do an update on this video? I'm curious to know if google plugged the hole.

  • @adamwest8131
    @adamwest8131 5 ปีที่แล้ว +238

    I'm curious if they're still using this as a solution.

    • @realcartoongirl
      @realcartoongirl 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      im curos to

    • @realcartoongirl
      @realcartoongirl 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@TheB2100 is 150tb

    • @realcartoongirl
      @realcartoongirl 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@TheB2100 sorry i saw notification say 100tb

    • @sytzebuz
      @sytzebuz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@TheB2100 nice 404

    • @yacobz
      @yacobz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      that's what I came to the comments in search of. Instead found a bunch of quotes, and ppl saying they're skipping the sponsor ads based on a cue Linus gives.

  • @ilvxruixli1844
    @ilvxruixli1844 5 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    "GOOGLE MUST'VE SEEN BASTARDS LIKE US COMIN' A MILE AWAY"

  • @CKTDanny
    @CKTDanny 6 ปีที่แล้ว +243

    As soon as he mentioned the 5 user accounts, I already knew where this was headed 👏

    • @PGBlitz
      @PGBlitz 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      the 5 user accounts are not needed, you can use service accounts with one account. we have it baked in our open source software at plexguide.com

    • @sa11an
      @sa11an 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      SDG Danny h

    • @andrewjones992
      @andrewjones992 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      PlexGuide.com admin sush :D lol

    • @The-Tech-Gent
      @The-Tech-Gent 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      What do you want, a medal?

    • @haxalicious
      @haxalicious 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I actually know a few people who do this exact thing. Even if you're just backing up 1TB, $10/month is less than normal GDrive rates for 1TB.

  • @kaffekarsken
    @kaffekarsken 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    What a fun video to watch Linus. I was looking for a part 2 but couldn't find one. Are you still using this method?