[vahomu]

> As disks are read at 3M/s, we estimate the duration of the operation to be up to 370 hours.

Am I reading this right? This works out to just ~3.8TiB.

So much drama over, basically, one HDD worth of data?

[robin_reala]

They said that in the end only 414 users were affected, and it was their simple hosting package. Honestly, I’m almost surprised it was that much.

[the8472]

If they had some spare SSD capacity lying around they could have done a linear copy of the HDD to SSD and then done the import, that could have sped up the random-access scans.

[phonon]

Absolutely pathetic on their end.