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> Current low end costs for "enterprise" storage are ~5,000/tb. 
>  But, that
> tends to decrease as time goes on.  Additionally, they could be doing
> something spiffy like storing metadata and migrating messages that
> haven't been touched for a long time to tape.

Don't they build their own systems?  I know they did in the past, but
I'm not sure they do so anymore.  Just get a few of those spiffy 3Ware
RAID cards, some cheap 350/400GB IDE drives, stuff them into a rackmount
case and voila, Gmail.  ;)

     ryan woodsmall
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