How the NSA tracks people [video]

Re:How the NSA tracks people [video] by zeep on Monday August 07, 2017 @02:05PM (#14949686)

You mean if stored on 4TB HDD... but they could easily cut that 250 million in half by using 8TB drives.

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Re:How the NSA tracks people [video] by megous on Monday August 07, 2017 @05:58PM (#14951610)

8TB HDD were manufactured only since 2014.

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Re:How the NSA tracks people [video] by zeep on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @03:01AM (#14966163)

not sure when they came out but pretty sure that you could get 8TB SSDs before that

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Re:How the NSA tracks people [video] by megous on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @10:00AM (#14968864)

Buying 100 mil. 8TB SSDs when SSD market is even smaller than HDD market would be not possible without everyone noticing. That's entire year (2015) of total SSD units production. 8TB drives would be at the time a tiny fraction of the total.

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Re:How the NSA tracks people [video] by zeep on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @04:41PM (#14973378)

I think that you underestimate the US Government... they are not a regular consumer...

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