# How does youtube store videos?

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**Created:** [April 23, 2007, 5:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-does-youtube-store-videos/223473 "2007-04-23T05:16:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![kdd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@kdd](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kdd)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 5:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-does-youtube-store-videos/223473/1 "2007-04-23T05:16:49Z")

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I was just wondering, how does youtube store all these videos? Does it use folder structure or does it store them directly into databases… All they have is just an ID of the video playing. So, it seems like they store it directly into a database… What do you think?