How much would it have cost them to save the old hard drives on 600 servers? Not much.
over $100,000 based on a very conservative and unrealistic estimate only factoring in the cost of removing and installing 600 hard drives.
over $100,000 based on a very conservative and unrealistic estimate only factoring in the cost of removing and installing 600 hard drives.
I know conspiracy theories are appealing, but it's much more likely that they took a calculated risk by holding on to the data/servers for one of their bigger, well-paying clients (~1.5% of their total server count). Then, when the gamble didn't look like it was going to pay off, they decided to cut their losses and reuse the servers.
I don't think datacenter monkeys cost that much... are you including the costs of the drives themselves?
Fine, so you should have bought them 600 new hardrives, maybe they would have done the labor for free. It's not like they cost that much. Or maybe Kim should have done so, instead of starting new companies and living large in NZ.
You lease servers--for as long as you keep paying them. You get a 30 day or so grace period if you do not pay, but Kim got way more than that.
I was commenting about the price of labor to replace 600 server's hard drives. If you use a team of 600 datacenter monkeys each taking out and replacing 1 server's drives at a time and gave them each an hour to do it... okay, that's $166 an hour per datacenter monkey. Those are highly paid technicians.