Yes, but why is that their responsibility? Had MegaUpload offered to buy the hard drives, or pay for their safe keeping, sure. It's not clear to me why a company should, in perpetuity, be required to keep the data for a former customer that is not paying them to do so.
100k is less then the 750k - 1M that lost for hanging onto them for a year without use. Sorry but something smells fishy here, the first month they should have swapped the drives and put those servers back up. (saving the drives intact just incase the feds came asking for them)
You're forgetting that when they initially decided to keep the servers they didn't know whether Kim would regain access to his funds or whether he would want to buy the data back at all. In retrospect they could've made the decision to do what you're suggesting.
I know conspiracy theories are appealing, but it's much more likely that they took a calculated risk by holding on to the data/servers for one of their bigger, well-paying clients (~1.5% of their total server count). Then, when the gamble didn't look like it was going to pay off, they decided to cut their losses and reuse the servers.
> I don't think datacenter monkeys cost that much... are you including the costs of the drives themselves?
Fine, so you should have bought them 600 new hardrives, maybe they would have done the labor for free. It's not like they cost that much. Or maybe Kim should have done so, instead of starting new companies and living large in NZ.
You lease servers--for as long as you keep paying them. You get a 30 day or so grace period if you do not pay, but Kim got way more than that.
I wasn't asking or saying anything about Kim Dotcom.
I was commenting about the price of labor to replace 600 server's hard drives. If you use a team of 600 datacenter monkeys each taking out and replacing 1 server's drives at a time and gave them each an hour to do it... okay, that's $166 an hour per datacenter monkey. Those are highly paid technicians.
MegaUpload had about 25 pentabytes... so that's a lot more than $100K USD. And a lot more than just one drive per system. You more talking about a BackBlaze Storage Pod type configuration.
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This is what they could have done to save the data:
- replace the hard drives
- start renting the servers to other people
- save the old hard drives just in case
How much would it have cost them to save the old hard drives on 600 servers? Not much.
Yes, but why is that their responsibility? Had MegaUpload offered to buy the hard drives, or pay for their safe keeping, sure. It's not clear to me why a company should, in perpetuity, be required to keep the data for a former customer that is not paying them to do so.
How much would it have cost them to save the old hard drives on 600 servers? Not much.
over $100,000 based on a very conservative and unrealistic estimate only factoring in the cost of removing and installing 600 hard drives.
100k is less then the 750k - 1M that lost for hanging onto them for a year without use. Sorry but something smells fishy here, the first month they should have swapped the drives and put those servers back up. (saving the drives intact just incase the feds came asking for them)
You're forgetting that when they initially decided to keep the servers they didn't know whether Kim would regain access to his funds or whether he would want to buy the data back at all. In retrospect they could've made the decision to do what you're suggesting.
I know conspiracy theories are appealing, but it's much more likely that they took a calculated risk by holding on to the data/servers for one of their bigger, well-paying clients (~1.5% of their total server count). Then, when the gamble didn't look like it was going to pay off, they decided to cut their losses and reuse the servers.
I don't think datacenter monkeys cost that much... are you including the costs of the drives themselves?
Fine, so you should have bought them 600 new hardrives, maybe they would have done the labor for free. It's not like they cost that much. Or maybe Kim should have done so, instead of starting new companies and living large in NZ.
You lease servers--for as long as you keep paying them. You get a 30 day or so grace period if you do not pay, but Kim got way more than that.
I wasn't asking or saying anything about Kim Dotcom.
I was commenting about the price of labor to replace 600 server's hard drives. If you use a team of 600 datacenter monkeys each taking out and replacing 1 server's drives at a time and gave them each an hour to do it... okay, that's $166 an hour per datacenter monkey. Those are highly paid technicians.
MegaUpload had about 25 pentabytes... so that's a lot more than $100K USD. And a lot more than just one drive per system. You more talking about a BackBlaze Storage Pod type configuration.
they COULD have, but why WOULD they?
Why should they bother? They're not his parents.
-3 points down-voted?
Sorry, I didn't realize how offensive this comment was!
I will try to refrain from commenting from now on.