As noted in the article,

> "Earlier this year, the FBI raided his house and seized all of his electronic devices after he had obtained and published some leaked video footage from Fox News. As we noted, this seemed like a pretty big 1st Amendment issue. Burke is also facing bogus CFAA charges because he was able to access the footage by using publicly accessible URLs to obtain the content."

Even if Burke had built a box, the maid service and beer would be the most helpful (but would not solve his actual issue).

The guy's boxes were confiscated by the FBI, which was why he'd been forced onto cloud storage.

Sure. Make me read the article. lol

Earlier this year, becuase of some legal issues, his 'business critical' data was now only stored in one place, that was telling him it was locked, and over quota.

And he has made no attempts to fix that.

Because I was curious what drives cost today --

20 TB drives on newegg seems to be available for $310 to $360. If you use erasure coding w/ 30% overhead that's 18 +3 drives or $7.5k in drives alone, pre chassis.

Having a DR replica living somewhere outside your house probably gets this well over $12k, even if that replica is glacier or similar.

So I found 20tb drives as low as 270 (which is what I used for my own pricing out of a hypothetical build), but if you feel lucky you can get large capacity refurb drives for a lot less than brand new (I did this recently for scratch space on my NAS). A refurb 20tb can be had as low as 200, which gets you down to 4200.

But yes - I realized my mistake in tossing off that comment offhand.

Oh sorry, I wasn't trying to bag on you. I was curious what it takes to store 1/3PB these days, and even at $15k it's surprisingly cheap.

A few days ago I bought an 18TB enterprise grade hard drive from a hardware refurbishing company for 170 bucks. I assume he can find a home for his data for around $3500 (if he chooses to not have any redundancy)