Considering you can put 3.6PB in a rack for under $170k ... it's quite safe to presume the NSA is storing massive amounts of content. And Utah isn't the only new datacenter they have. Cost is well under $600M for 12EB right now today. Just select your parity ratio and drop in some meta network and hardware and file management. So lets just say $1B max to fillerup on the cheap and Silicon Valley startup smart. Then add power and staff. Tis but a drop in the sea, not even a blip on the yearly budget. Y'all are fucking stupid if you think Gov and Corp doesn't have you and the entire lives of the majority of the planet on disk by now. How does it feel? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/black-budget/ http://fas.org/irp/budget/index.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center http://www.mkomo.com/cost-per-gigabyte-update