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I could copy the entire Library of Congress onto a single 10 Terabyte hard drive.
If they took a high def. digital photo of every single ballot, it wouldn't add up to 12 Terabytes for recording 2 Million ballots. Hundreds of Terabytes?
Do the math.
If you want to make sure nothing is modified (even a lossless compression algorithm could possibly be challenged in court), that means storing raw image data. At 600dpi, 24 bit, an 8.5x11 scan is 100MB per side, Front and back. 200MB per page. Time 2 million ballots, That is 400++ TB's. Now add a second scan under UV light. So figure a PetaByte. Now if you increase to 1200 dpi, that is 4 PB's. That is a few hundred 10TB drives in a massive RAID array.
It is very conceivable.
Comic Sans is the only way.
Note: It doesn't have to be in RAID, and could have several negatives depending on configuration that would make that even less efficient
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Maybe the person who tweeted this doesn't really know the details and just randomly used "100s of terabytes" figuratively to express a really large number. Kind of like people who use the term "light-years" to mean a big amount of time (even tho it's a unit of distance).
Yeah, I think he just means a shit ton.
A buttload
A shit ton is, at the very least, several buttloads.
A buttload is limited by internal storage constraints. A shit ton is all external aggregated buttloads.
a wagon full
Less than 100s of terabytes and USB drives would be much more convenient than a server rack.
Pulitzer said scanning is done in multiple wavelengths, so (perhaps) several HIGH definition, UNCOMPRESSED image files per ballot.
Compressing and storing text takes very little room by comparison.
Not correct. You might be able to get text files of just the books and cram it onto one drive, but not full scans including illustrations of the books, or all the magazines, sheet music, audio, and video in the collection.
“…it is estimated that the entire collection of the Library of Congress including photos, sound recordings and movies might take 3,000 TB of storage."
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2012/03/how-many-libraries-of-congress-does-it-take/
Really high definition scans of 2,000,000 ballots would fill approximately 100 TB.