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The FBI took all their hardware in a raid.

by LoganDark 3y ago

WalterBright 3y ago
Yes, but that's a separate problem.
- LoganDark 3y ago
  No, it's really not. "Never trust your data to the cloud!" They never did. They used the cloud as a backup. They trusted the data to their computer with a cloud backup, which is usually better than not having any cloud backup at all. The problem is that their computers were then seized and they couldn't make another copy of their data in time.
  - WalterBright 3y ago
    I meant the FBI raid had nothing to do with Google shutting him down. Also, the article did not say he was using Google as a backup. BTW, one can go directly to a store and buy a new computer and start downloading.
    - LoganDark 3y ago
      > BTW, one can go directly to a store and buy a new computer and start downloading. Not two hundred terabytes in a week. A week is 168 hours, and a gigabit network connection can only theoretically transfer 450 gigabytes per hour, or 75,600 gigabytes in 168 hours, still a far cry from over 200,000 gigabytes of content to download. Try getting more than a gigabit from anything other than custom fiber installations from a very limited selection of ISPs from a very limited subset of countries. That's even assuming they're able to just buy a new computer with over 200 terabytes of storage, set it up with a gigabit network connection, and somehow convince google to use a gigabit of upload bandwidth for a week straight, which they definitely will not do for a single customer, considering they already just got cut off for using too much resources. And that's also assuming the FBI didn't bar them from buying more computers somehow, and that computers are easily available / affordable in their country (including the said over 200 terabytes of storage). The lowest price-per-gigabyte listed on PC Part Picker (which doesn't have every product ever made, but is still useful) is $0.012, or 6 TB for $71.45[0]. You'd need about 40 of them to hold this data (237.22 TB), which works out to about $2,858 for just the drives. [0]: https://pcpartpicker.com/product/kXXfrH/seagate-internal-hard-drive-st6000nm0034 https://pcpartpicker.com/product/kXXfrH/seagate-internal-har...

The FBI took all their hardware in a raid.

WalterBright 3y ago

Yes, but that's a separate problem.

LoganDark 3y ago
No, it's really not. "Never trust your data to the cloud!" They never did. They used the cloud as a backup. They trusted the data to their computer with a cloud backup, which is usually better than not having any cloud backup at all. The problem is that their computers were then seized and they couldn't make another copy of their data in time.
- WalterBright 3y ago
  I meant the FBI raid had nothing to do with Google shutting him down. Also, the article did not say he was using Google as a backup. BTW, one can go directly to a store and buy a new computer and start downloading.
  - LoganDark 3y ago
    > BTW, one can go directly to a store and buy a new computer and start downloading. Not two hundred terabytes in a week. A week is 168 hours, and a gigabit network connection can only theoretically transfer 450 gigabytes per hour, or 75,600 gigabytes in 168 hours, still a far cry from over 200,000 gigabytes of content to download. Try getting more than a gigabit from anything other than custom fiber installations from a very limited selection of ISPs from a very limited subset of countries. That's even assuming they're able to just buy a new computer with over 200 terabytes of storage, set it up with a gigabit network connection, and somehow convince google to use a gigabit of upload bandwidth for a week straight, which they definitely will not do for a single customer, considering they already just got cut off for using too much resources. And that's also assuming the FBI didn't bar them from buying more computers somehow, and that computers are easily available / affordable in their country (including the said over 200 terabytes of storage). The lowest price-per-gigabyte listed on PC Part Picker (which doesn't have every product ever made, but is still useful) is $0.012, or 6 TB for $71.45[0]. You'd need about 40 of them to hold this data (237.22 TB), which works out to about $2,858 for just the drives. [0]: https://pcpartpicker.com/product/kXXfrH/seagate-internal-hard-drive-st6000nm0034 https://pcpartpicker.com/product/kXXfrH/seagate-internal-har...