Video Storage Requirements

I have over 2T in personally created videos alone, and that's at 720p 30fps, nothing higher. If you record video often, it adds up rapidly.

damn, that's a lot of gigabytes for a movie

how can this amount of video footage be backed up?

I've been looking at the same type of projects, but someone pointed out that 1080p @ 30fps is 1TB in 24hrs!

This is a drop in the bucket for photographers, videographers, and general backups of RAW / high resolution videos from mobile devices. 80TB [usable] was "just enough" for my household in 2016.

Anyone that works with videos, 3d models, images and music can easily fill up alot of space. I have been working on a short 15-minutes clip, so far I got 3 takes using about 70GB in total, just for that, and that isn't even in full HD, less than 30 fps and it's using frame compression. Not all content is available in netflix or spotify, and not everyone got access to those as well.

As you say you stream your videos. Now imagine getting that shiny new 4k video camera and start storing raw footage even after you have edited it. Rough ballbark of 120Mbits/s ==> 15MB/s ==> 900MB/minute ==> 54GB/hour. This is why I keep adding more and more disks to my NAS.

I think because video and photos have the potential to be huge, especially in higher-end cameras, so it wouldn't take very long to exhaust 10gb of data, implying that they might be using a service that allows more for longer-term stuff (e.g. S3).

Per the GitHub readme, the video should be around 100-200 GB per year, not too bad.

Our cap is 1TB. We tend to use anywhere from 600-700GB. But we don't use 4k streaming.