Storing 25 petabytes of Megaupload data costs us $9,000 a day

Re:Storing 25 petabytes of Megaupload data costs us $9,000 a... by astrodust on Thursday March 22, 2012 @07:53PM (#3742680)

If it's anything like the usual proceedings, the lawyers involved would probably prefer if they had several copies of the data, too.

I'm sure most of these drives were arrayed in such a fashion where they're unreadable unless in the proper equipment. It's not like you can just buy a pile of off-the-shelf external drives and start copying, either, as the contents might be unreadable unless the proper software is installed and configured correctly.

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Re:Storing 25 petabytes of Megaupload data costs us $9,000 a... by phillmv on Friday March 23, 2012 @12:21AM (#3743672)

Not to mention that it would cost (1Tb * $109 @ newegg) * ( 25,000 Tb) $2,725,000 just to replicate it.

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Re:Storing 25 petabytes of Megaupload data costs us $9,000 a... by papercrane on Friday March 23, 2012 @10:20AM (#3745254)

I'm sure you could get a bulk discount though.

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Re:Storing 25 petabytes of Megaupload data costs us $9,000 a... by CoryMathews on Friday March 23, 2012 @09:45AM (#3745077)

Wouldn't making more copies of the files be exactly why they are taking the site down in the first place?

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