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Re:NHS England patient data 'uploaded to Google servers', To... by collyw on Monday March 03, 2014 @10:06AM (#7334038)
We were shipping hard disks between the States and Spain. Unfortunately Spanish customs can make the delay unreasonably large (especially when someone put the value of the drive at $100).
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Re:NHS England patient data 'uploaded to Google servers', To... by pbhjpbhj on Monday March 03, 2014 @10:24AM (#7334172)
>(especially when someone put the value of the drive at $100) //

Is that wrong? I see a Seagate Baracuda 3TB on Amazon at $110. Do you mean it should have included the data value or that they inflated the price or what?

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Re:NHS England patient data 'uploaded to Google servers', To... by collyw on Monday March 03, 2014 @10:35AM (#7334254)
Yes, but the drive wasn't what had the value (it was second hand). It got sent back afterwards.

It was publicly funded research data, to be processed and uploaded to the Genome Browser at UCSC. Had someone just put zero on it I think it would have gone a lot more smoothly.

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