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Any idea of what sort of medium could the NSA be using to store such an absurd amount of data? Maybe robotized tapes? I doubt they are doing it either in hard d
by adlpz 13y ago
Any idea of what sort of medium could the NSA be using to store such an absurd amount of data? Maybe robotized tapes? I doubt they are doing it either in hard drives nor solid state.
Maybe the NSA has access to one of those high-density holographic optical storage systems we've been hearing about this years?
- VonGuard 13y agoI'd wager it's HD's. The government may have big ideas, but it tends to implement insane scale with normal things. Remember, the budget here is in the $80 billion range. Just because they have all that dough doesn't mean they don't spend it on stupidly large numbers of standardized items.