The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense claims that pro-Ukrainian hacktivists breached the Russian Center for Space Hydrometeorology, aka “planeta” (планета), and wiped 2 petabytes of data.

  • Moonrise2473English
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    5 months ago

    Technically with 45tb they mean “45tb of highly compressible text”, actually is 18tb.

    And raw images aren’t compressible

    With a catch like this the genius marketing could call them “100 petabyte tapes” (only if you store zero-filled files)

    So it needs more tapes and the drive itself is also very expensive, around $10k, and it’s not something that a Russian government entity can access easily today, but needs to be bought from grey market resellers with higher markup.

    Then needs a dedicated server for that, a person (or a robotic arm) that changes the tapes every few hours, temperature controlled off-site storage…