..sounds like an especially big reason to figure something out, huh? Not to mention, 858 TB isn't even that much for a whole ass government. For a consumer it might be 10$ per TB for a new drive, so it would be less when you're a government, which makes it just a bit under 10 000 USD for a full backup. That's it. Even if you budget in having to replace all drives once a year, 10 000 USD/yr is a bargain

[–] CucumberFetish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

New drives are more like 20€ per TB. Factor in redundancy with something like raid 5 and boom, off-site storage costs you a government toppling 20 000€ in hard drives.

[–] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 hours ago

And then you buy the storage from Dell or some other big player and the disk array with controllers, warranties and the kitchen sink costs 100k€. Which is still almost a rounding error on that scale.