Let's just say an average txt doc is 4k, and an average uncompressed bitmap of that same document is 40M. Documents with contents that would cost 50 terrabytes

Let's just say an average txt doc is 4k, and an average uncompressed bitmap of that same document is 40M. Documents with contents that would cost 50 terrabytes to scan and store as uncompressed tiff or whatever cost 5G as ascii. This is by way of illustration only. Just think "arrested with drugs having a street value of $10M" and ask yourself if that same kind of inflation is likely to be going on here in the prosecutions PR campaign - which is what this story is.[1] [1] Note that this could be a fair, reasonable, unbiased and accurate story, but it would be a heroic assumption not to consider the alternatives.