There were 21.5 million records stolen. If each file averages 5 mm in depth thats over 100 km of depth you need to have (you can do similar calculations for height/width).
If the OPM computers currently average 1 query per second (a number I'm pulling out of thin air, but one I'd guess was conservative). Even if you restrict that to 8X5 business hours access (an efficiency loss in itself) you have 2400 phone calls to answer and then traverse of the gigantic document store we created above.
I think this is one of those cases where people have very bad intuitive understanding of the scale of the data and what dealing with this kind of data looks like in a physical form.
If the OPM computers currently average 1 query per second (a number I'm pulling out of thin air, but one I'd guess was conservative). Even if you restrict that to 8X5 business hours access (an efficiency loss in itself) you have 2400 phone calls to answer and then traverse of the gigantic document store we created above.
I think this is one of those cases where people have very bad intuitive understanding of the scale of the data and what dealing with this kind of data looks like in a physical form.