G-Drive Fire Destroys 125,000 Officials' Data
Note: G-drive is a South Korean government file server.
Which is worse: single site backup or calling it a Gdrive?
https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2025/10/02/FPWGFSXMLNCFPIEGWKZF3BOQ3M/Open linkView original on sh.itjust.works
Peak competence there.
And it's less than a petabyte. With something like B2 it only costs about 5k.
Per year?
nope.
One time then? There are backup services that actually charge a single amount? An amount that also beats consumer hdds by quite a bit?
Do they put it on tape once and store it in some warehouse until you pay to access it?
oh you mean the cloud price, that's per month.
5k/month? That’s a whole lot. Probably not much when you have 100k people, but still.
I could easily set up a PB server with raid for half a years worth of that. Throw a second one in for another half a year at a different location, heck add a third. Were is this money going?
Insurance, salaries, profit margins.
So, I wonder which single-copy records needed to be 'accidentally' lost in this fire.