3 ms·But this was written in 2008. Storage capacity could/must have increased massively since then.by spahl 13y agoBut this was written in 2008. Storage capacity could/must have increased massively since then.mpyne 13y agoBut so has the volume of data that NSA would have to retain.lukifer 13y ago...and so have the compression and filtering tech, I'm sure. If you strip out most attachments, the average email message is incredibly tiny when gzipped.