Because they are trying to get as much as they can for
the least amount of money. It happens all the time. You can buy a
1TB external disk for about $500 but a quality SCSI array would be much more
expensive. However, if your 1TB disk fails you lose everything. If
you lose a disk in a SCSI array you don't. More and more people are trying
to do things with as little money as possible and are sacrificing the security
that comes along with the higher price of quality hardware.
Also, because they might be just plain stupid.
:)
why would government agencies use large portable hard drives to
store databases?
Quote:
Around 1,800 of the portable Maxtor hard
discs, produced in Thailand, carried two Trojan horse viruses: autorun.inf and
ghost.pif, the bureau under the Ministry of Justice said.
The bureau
said that hard discs with such a large capacity are usually used by government
agencies to store databases and other information.
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