17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Alexander Chislenko says:
Jeremy Porter writes:
... Usenet traffic being rated at some 21gigabytes a year (traffic through UUnet) considering the low information value of the vast majority of it, no one will be interested in storing it.
Wait a minute... How much would it cost to store all this info? a few hundred thousand dollars a year?
21GB = 5 Exabyte tapes == no more than $50. Even if you keep it on line, the cost in question is only $15000 or so with modern disk (at ripoff prices!). Perry