I just spotted that Giganews have completed their third upgrade this year, reaching a mind-blowing 200 days of binary retention.
I’m staggered by this increase as the number of updates going onto Usenet is still growing exponentially as the average connection speed of readers continues to increase, and the average size of files also continues to increase e.g. with lossless music files and HD video files.
I would love to know how much storage is required to hold 200 days of binary files. I wonder if Giganews are now one of the top 10 data storers in the world? They must be getting close.
