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

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 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.

[–] credo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You only have 5 GB on your PC? How do you survive?

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I didn't say anything about how much storage I have on my PC? I just said my only point of reference is my personal hard drive scaled up by that number, not how that actually compared to the 150 TB number. I've got 2 TB on my PC, but it's only about a quarter full and a substantial chunk of that is games anyway. All my work and personal projects take up less space due to just being the kind of thing that doesn't need a big file to store

[–] credo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

But you did.

You quantified 150TB as a “fucktonne” of important data. I’m assuming metric fucktonne here.
You specified a lot in relation to a few tens of thousand (i.e. at least 30,000) times what you have on your PC
1 fucktonne > a lot

150 TB / 30,000 = 5 GB

There is more involved in the formal proof, but I think that’s a good summary of the facts.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I said it's a fucktonne of data gone if it's data that is relatively small in terms of file size per amount of information stored. If I lose a million words of a novel I'm writing I'm going to call that a huge amount of stuff lost even though the file size is probably somewhere around a megabyte. I did not at any point comment on whether or not 150 TB is a lot of storage for an organisation like a university in and of itself; the bit about my point of reference was specifically to illustrate that I have no idea if it is or not

[–] credo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

*sigh

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I remember when my 386 had a 40mb hard drive.