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Re:NSA data volumes in terms of STASI filing cabinets by jbit on Friday July 05, 2013 @12:04PM (#5995463)
While I agree that they likely store much less data than five zettabytes, your assumption that all their storage is on constantly spinning hard disks seems flawed.

(Tape libraries and various other offline/nearline storage solutions would be viable for most of their data)

Re:NSA data volumes in terms of STASI filing cabinets by acqq on Friday July 05, 2013 @12:38PM (#5995611)
Which other solutions do you suggest? Interestingly, tape libraries have also capacity limitations.