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Storing 25 petabytes of Megaupload data costs us $9,000 a day

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Re: Storing 25 petabytes of Megaupload data costs us $9,000 a day

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Post by dos1 »

In my mind, the MPAA is certainly the best choice to pay these costs. They're the ones with the problem, they should be the ones to bear the burden. Especially considering Megaupload offered to take the data and they explicitly forbade it. If the MPAA didn't like the solutions offered, but can't come up with something better, then I think Carpathia should get to do what it wants.

Edit: The opinion above has NO legal basis whatsoever. As many have pointed out, it's not even legally possible. I made this comment solely from a "In a perfect world..." standpoint.

Re: Storing 25 petabytes of Megaupload data costs us $9,000 a day

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Post by ecaron »

At that price, it would only take them 150 days to stop losing money if they started building some Backblaze servers (http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v...). 25,000TB / 135TB * $7,384 = $1,367,407 minimum cost of commercial hardware to store that much.

"historically and mind-bogglingly large amount of data" - you could say that again.

Re: Storing 25 petabytes of Megaupload data costs us $9,000 a day

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Post by anon808 »

It sucks, but that's the price of doing business. They chose their customer, and now are (unfortunately) tied to consequences. Same thing happens to building owners who have a crime committed by a tenant, the leased space becomes a crime scene until the police/govt are done with their investigation.

Re: Storing 25 petabytes of Megaupload data costs us $9,000 a day

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Post by citricsquid »

dos1 wrote: post #2

In my mind, the MPAA is certainly the best choice to pay these costs. They're the ones with the problem, they should be the ones to bear the burden. Especially considering Megaupload offered to take the data and they explicitly forbade it. If the MPAA didn't like the solutions offered, but can't come up with something better, then I think Carpathia should get to do what it wants. Edit: The opinion above has NO legal…

The data is being held (from what I understand) as part of an FBI investigation. The MPAA may be responsible for the case existing and bringing the supposed crime to light but the FBI are the people trying the case and this is beyond the MPAA now. The responsibility lies with the government agencies.

Re: Storing 25 petabytes of Megaupload data costs us $9,000 a day

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Post by DanBC »

moonboots wrote: post #3

For reference, this amount of data would require 190 backblaze storage pods ($7,384 for 135TB) totaling $1.4 million.

Is that pre- or post- Thailand flooding prices? (Have drive prices settled down again?)

And is there any redundancy included in your figures? (25 petabytes / 135 terabytes == about 190 pods)

Re: Storing 25 petabytes of Megaupload data costs us $9,000 a day

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Post by jonknee »

ecaron wrote: post #4

At that price, it would only take them 150 days to stop losing money if they started building some Backblaze servers ( http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v... ). 25,000TB / 135TB * $7,384 = $1,367,407 minimum cost of commercial hardware to store that much. "historically and mind-bogglingly large amount of data" - you could say that again.

Did you read the article at all? They can't lease the equipment to anyone else, which is what's costing them money. The servers were estimated to be values at $1.25M, but they are also unable to lease all the space that they are using, which is significant.
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