Karl Rove's confusion about capacity of NSA's Utah data center.

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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