USENET on a tape
Perry E. Metzger
pmetzger at lehman.com
Mon Dec 13 06:00:05 PST 1993
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
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