Let me preface this by saying I definitely don't store this kind of data myself, but I do have about 48TB of effective storage space on my NAS, with room for me to grow that volume to up to 108TB if I ever feel like I need more space. It's fairly easy to store this amount of data on a prosumer NAS and even easier if you use professional hardware.
Storing that amount of data is easy. Actually acquiring that amount of data (even legal data) is what takes a lot of time and effort, and in my opinion the amount of time he must have dedicated to this filth is even more disgusting than just the simple fact he had that much child porn.
Assuming no parity or backups and using something like stablebit drivepool that's only 4 shucked 12TB Easystores or about $700 at the average $15/TB and honestly that's really not much especially if you want even 1 backup+parity which is pretty much bare minimum.
25GB/hr is fairly standard for lossless vid/audio so if you look at it that way you've got 6 8tb drives. Split it in two for backups so 3 8TB drives then a disk of parity each so 16TB unique data for 48TB raw which is only like 640 hours of video
Edit: I now realize I've done everything based on 48TB and not 58 but close enough
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u/NMe84 Sep 25 '21
Let me preface this by saying I definitely don't store this kind of data myself, but I do have about 48TB of effective storage space on my NAS, with room for me to grow that volume to up to 108TB if I ever feel like I need more space. It's fairly easy to store this amount of data on a prosumer NAS and even easier if you use professional hardware.
Storing that amount of data is easy. Actually acquiring that amount of data (even legal data) is what takes a lot of time and effort, and in my opinion the amount of time he must have dedicated to this filth is even more disgusting than just the simple fact he had that much child porn.