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This ignores the (likely) huge cost of personnel and software required to manage it all.
by randlet 13y ago
This ignores the (likely) huge cost of personnel and software required to manage it all.
- spydum 13y agoYes, and out of 272pb, storage failures will be frequent. At what looked to be $100/tb, I have to imaging this is not accounted for.
- ctdonath 13y agoIf the base cost is $27M, accounting for storage failures is cheap (in government/intelligence budget terms). A SWAG of 10x price for dual RAID-5 storage brings it to just $270M. That's peanuts for NSA types.
- danso 13y agoBut maybe they don't need to manage it all? Maybe they need to keep records from the average person for about a month, and records for special targets much much longer. Perhaps that would ease the maintenance burden.