“we can’t ensure the data is safe because there’s too much of it”
…sounds like an especially big reason to figure something out, huh? Not to mention, 858 TB isn’t even that much for a whole ass government. For a consumer it might be 10$ per TB for a new drive, so it would be less when you’re a government, which makes it just a bit under 10 000 USD for a full backup. That’s it. Even if you budget in having to replace all drives once a year, 10 000 USD/yr is a bargain
New drives are more like 20€ per TB. Factor in redundancy with something like raid 5 and boom, off-site storage costs you a government toppling 20 000€ in hard drives.
And then you buy the storage from Dell or some other big player and the disk array with controllers, warranties and the kitchen sink costs 100k€. Which is still almost a rounding error on that scale.
“we can’t ensure the data is safe because there’s too much of it”
…sounds like an especially big reason to figure something out, huh? Not to mention, 858 TB isn’t even that much for a whole ass government. For a consumer it might be 10$ per TB for a new drive, so it would be less when you’re a government, which makes it just a bit under 10 000 USD for a full backup. That’s it. Even if you budget in having to replace all drives once a year, 10 000 USD/yr is a bargain
New drives are more like 20€ per TB. Factor in redundancy with something like raid 5 and boom, off-site storage costs you a government toppling 20 000€ in hard drives.
And then you buy the storage from Dell or some other big player and the disk array with controllers, warranties and the kitchen sink costs 100k€. Which is still almost a rounding error on that scale.
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