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I agree that 10TB can hold at least 500m simple documents. Minor quibble (although bit groggy so correct me if I am wrong), but surely if 1MB holds 500, 1GB ho
by alva 10y ago
I agree that 10TB can hold at least 500m simple documents.
Minor quibble (although bit groggy so correct me if I am wrong), but surely if 1MB holds 500, 1GB holds 500,000, 1TB 500,000,000 so 10TB holds 5 billion.
I just find it unlikely that 500m (or even 5b) of normal documents detailing operations exist at a single organisation, even with attached multimedia. Certainly possible, but seems off? Databases seem like the more likely chunk of the haul.
Not suggestion anything nefarious going on, just noting it is an odd way to describe the likely data.
- nickff 10y agoHillary Clinton managed to generate 60k e-mail records over 6 years; assuming a period of 8 years, and a similar rate of e-mail generation, it would only take 6250 employees to generate 500M e-mails. The NSA is estimated to have 30k-40k employees (and many contractors).