I have no idea what is or isn't a lot of data for a university beyond scaling how much stuff is on my own PC up by a few tens of thousand times, but surely it depends on what data was attacked? Like promotional / staff training content that's largely in video form would be a lot of space with very little consequence, but 150 TB of student records and research data that's all just databases would be a fucktonne of important stuff gone

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I have no idea what is or isn’t a lot of data for a university beyond scaling how much stuff is on my own PC

Yeah, judged on a "home user" scale 150TB may seem like a lot but it really isn't when you're talking about Government / University / Enterprise.

Just one of the servers I have under management is currently using 49TB and there's another one in that rack using 40TB. That ~90TB (over half of what's in the article) for just two servers in a single rack at a single company.

BIG data amounts are measured in Petabytes or Exabytes.

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