Re:NSA data volumes in terms of STASI filing cabinets
by jbit on Friday July 05, 2013 @12:04PM
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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)
(Tape libraries and various other offline/nearline storage solutions would be viable for most of their data)