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Originally Posted by daffy4u
I *think* (I don't know) Amazon believes that over time their servers would be overwhelmed if they kept every copy of every newspaper and daily blog.
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I don't think Amazon's servers are going to run out of space after a couple years. Here is why: at 10 megabyte per edition, times 400 days per year, times 10 years, times 100 different newspapers, file compress by a factor of 4 - you get a whopping 10^12 bytes, which is 1000^4, which is a Terabyte's worth of data. You can buy a disk drive with this capacity for a little over one hundred dollars.
http://www.amazon.com/Cavalry-Storag...6031853&sr=8-2
Amazon's S3 system is probably in the petabyte range.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terabyte
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petabyte