So do it for your neighbours and get paid . <| sep |> Most of our server stuff is dell although I have the authority to buy what ever I want . I asked my supervisor what he thought of a Freenas and I guess he just wants a simple solution that is rackmounted if possible <| sep |> The Home Office has budgeted approximately 175 million to help internet service providers and communications companies implement the technology needed to collect the masses of web data from users . Hahah . That might just about cover the technical consultation meetings with a few experts and suppliers with a couple of lunches thrown in . The hardware alone before you ' ve built ridiculous sized data centres or in fact built the technology that let ' s you process , store are compute this sheer amount of data will cost hundreds of millions if not billions . This hardware cost has also increased across the board about 20 % recently as well