RE: Lois Lerner's emails.
June 25, 2014 at 7:47 pm
(This post was last modified: June 25, 2014 at 7:49 pm by Jackalope.)
Just for clarity - the $37,000 figure quoted above is for the drive. 8.5TB tapes are under $300 each.
The issue is not necessarily one of cost. Even relatively small Exchange servers are a pain in the ass to deal with archiving emails, let alone massive ones like IRS undoubtedly uses. We have single employees who's mailboxes are several terabytes in size (mostly due to undisciplined emailing of fucking PowerPoint files - the execs are the worst offenders.
The issue is not necessarily one of cost. Even relatively small Exchange servers are a pain in the ass to deal with archiving emails, let alone massive ones like IRS undoubtedly uses. We have single employees who's mailboxes are several terabytes in size (mostly due to undisciplined emailing of fucking PowerPoint files - the execs are the worst offenders.
