More important than the cost of 2TB of space is the cost of getting hosted storage (since I doubt lichess is hosted on someone's private hardware).
Compression can improve storage costs quite a bit here: you just store the clock readout and compressing something like
1:30
1:28
1:14
etc...
Is very powerful with Lempel-Ziv and the like (virtually every compression toolkit has this). I suspect the timestamps would take very little added storage. Plus, it appears they are already there since a graph is shown on replays. So it's just an interface change?!
Compression can improve storage costs quite a bit here: you just store the clock readout and compressing something like
1:30
1:28
1:14
etc...
Is very powerful with Lempel-Ziv and the like (virtually every compression toolkit has this). I suspect the timestamps would take very little added storage. Plus, it appears they are already there since a graph is shown on replays. So it's just an interface change?!