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I can definitely understand the lost potential revenue of having unused servers. But I wonder why they are saying that cost includes power and connectivity for
by jakejake 15y ago
I can definitely understand the lost potential revenue of having unused servers. But I wonder why they are saying that cost includes power and connectivity for the servers? Seems like they would be powered down. I would actually have assumed the servers to be confiscated and taken off-premise by the FBI.
- aqme28 15y agoIt's possible (though I'd doubt it is the case) that those servers have data from other clients as well.
- JoeAltmaier 15y agoAny large datacenter has storage allocated in complex ways. IT may be challenging to isolate one customer's data physically from another. For instance, physical disks can be virtually concatenated then repartitioned into virtual storage containers, which may reside on part of 1, or parts of many physical disks. They could of course migrate all of the contested data onto new storage. But its large; who would pay for that?
- jakejake 15y agoThat makes the most sense to me.
- rmc 15y agoIt is possible that all the incriminating evidence, i.e. the harddrives, are encrypted, but now are mounted and are hence decrypted. Pull the power and you might need someone (who might be outside the USA court's reach) to enter the password. Pull the power and maybe all the evidence goes away...