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So do we really have 1TB of image space? |
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Posts: 1 24-Apr-07 3:52 AM Volkswagen Beetle |
I remember someone asked this - I think it was in the help forum before it closed - was there a conclusion to that? 1TB sounds ridiculously high, and quite
misleading - if everyone used anywhere close to that amount of space, Yuku would be in trouble!
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Posts: 9381 24-Apr-07 5:46 AM |
I thought that there was not actually a limit... so I guess you could say 1TB.
I have no idea on the actual answer. |
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Posts: 22 24-Apr-07 6:05 AM |
Here is what I was told.
You are limited in amount of pictures you can save in a album, but you are allowed to make an unlimited amount of albums. So it really is nearly unlimited. I believe we have the right to limit that at some point. 
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Posts: 33 24-Apr-07 6:37 AM Mr Insanitivity
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I believe we have the right to limit that at some pointyeah make it 1 TB 
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Posts: 22 24-Apr-07 7:05 AM |
lol...I can't even imagine using that much space. lol.
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Posts: 343 24-Apr-07 8:22 AM |
for our group that is great, we do needlework so pictures are 75% of our board! it's awesome!
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Posts: 22 29-Apr-07 5:28 PM |
Wow, granted I am not a computer geek, but I hadn't even heard of 1TB before I saw this post. I feel all stupidish now.
What is a TB anyway? A Trilobyte? *grin* |
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Posts: 1 29-Apr-07 6:04 PM Volkswagen Beetle |
1TB = 1 Terabyte = 1,000GB.
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Posts: 3 29-Apr-07 6:21 PM |
I think I've actually heard of "Terabytes" before from a techie friend of mine.
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Posts: 2 2-May-07 10:28 AM |
No one will ever use that much space. That's bigger than every hard drive in existence! Well, except maybe NASA... but still..! |
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Posts: 22 2-May-07 10:43 AM |
well there you have it. Yuku is better than NASA.
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Posts: 9381 2-May-07 10:56 AM |
hahahaha!
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Posts: 2255 2-May-07 11:27 AM Underwearer |
1 terabyte isn't that much, it's only 1024 gigaybytes! Probably less than the sum total of everyone's hard drives who post here... Take mine out
and that's 984 GB left
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Sunshine56 |
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Posts: 813 2-May-07 11:46 AM |
I was the one that asked. When my board was moved I recieved this email from Yuku:
In addition, we have added some new features: |
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Posts: 9381 2-May-07 1:21 PM |
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Posts: 39 3-May-07 2:33 AM |
I'm sorry, but it would be impossible to offer thousand (and especially millons) of people 1TB of free image space, you couldn't do that if you owned
the internet, even microsoft, probably the largest and richest company in the world, only gives 1GB to users for free hotmail accounts.
Last Edited By: Lord Yaksha 3-May-07 2:36 AM.
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Ben |
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Posts: 1 3-May-07 2:55 AM Volkswagen Beetle |
Actually, if you think back to when Gmail appeared, they offered a very high limit (was it 1GB or 2GB to start with?) at a time when 10MB-20MB was common. I
remember thinking the exact same thing about Gmail back then as you're saying about Yuku now.
1TB is an enormous amount of disk space, but to be honest, 1GB still seems pretty huge too - particularly for emails, although attachments could use up quite a bit of that space. The problem with the "1TB" of disk space is that Yuku automatically resizes any images above a certain size anyway, so it would take a long time to use up all of the space. It's not like you're a photographer uploading very high quality images (think 10MB per image). Still, look at Flickr.com - a huge photography community with bandwidth limits but NO disk space limits for subscribers. And they don't scale down your originals. So it's quite feasible to use up a lot of disk space, but most people just don't, because they don't put their entire collection of photos online. On Flickr I've seen photographers with 33,000 photos in their photostream - imagine if they're all 10MB - that's 330,000GB for each of those users. But those users are not the norm - if you look around Flickr you'll see that most subscribers have a few hundred to a few thousand photos. As image hosting on a message board system, though, 1TB is just not needed by the vast majority - and I'd go so far as to say the entire userbase, unless Yuku suddenly becomes a photography site (not likely). |
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alison |
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Posts: 9381 3-May-07 3:06 AM |
just because we offer unlimited storage, doesn't mean that you all have to - or even will - use it. Looking at the averages, there will be users who take
advantage of this, and those who upload a single avatar. I think putting the term Terabyte is misleading, people assume that therefore there is 1Tb set aside
for each person. But that's not how it works. We have a server (or maybe a few servers, I have no idea how the technical aspect works) that is used for
storing images. We maintain a certain amount of free space to ensure that people can upload freely. As the server fills up, extra space, extra servers, or
whateve the process is, will be added.
Obviously, if one person found a file that was 1Tb in size, and decided to upload it to their image hosting, then it wouldn't work anyway. Firstly, there is a maximum size per image, and images will be resized if they are over that, and secondly - you'd still be copying the file in 2011 if you actually tried to upload it!! Better not try on dial up! |
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Posts: 39 3-May-07 3:14 AM |
If somebody found a 1TB photo i'd wanna see it, and you'd be waiting until 2011 just to get it to load on screen, then another four years to get it
onto your comp and another four to upload it XD
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Posts: 9381 3-May-07 3:21 AM |
unless you're on dial up, when it would take at least 70, including a dozen restarts due to the connection dropping out.
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Posts: 39 3-May-07 3:25 AM |
If you were on dial-up I think your computer would go psycho on your sorry ass :p
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