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Discussion on: Why YouTube Never Runs Out of Storage? It's NOT just CLOUD!

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vikrantstechoon

They also compress old videos that people are not watching anymore.
Some videos were available at 1080p. Now they are just at 240P.

So, if one server farm is full, it will have some room in months or years.

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Ujjawal Tyagi

This does make sense! But does this mean that in the future, we won't be able to watch videos in the same quality as those currently at 4K? :)
However, the videos I uploaded like 6-7 years ago on YouTube are still the same.