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       <div class="date"> 1st May 2015</div>
       <div class="body"><p>Many years ago, a friend of mine calculated how much it would cost
 to store the sound of all phone calls in Norway, and came up with the
-cost of around 20 million NOK for all the calls in a year.  I got
-curious and wondered what the same calculation would look like today.
-To do so one need an idea of how much data storage is needed for each
-minute of sound, how many minutes all the calls in Norway sums up to,
-and the cost of data storage.</p>
+cost of around 20 million NOK (2.4 mill EUR) for all the calls in a
+year.  I got curious and wondered what the same calculation would look
+like today.  To do so one need an idea of how much data storage is
+needed for each minute of sound, how many minutes all the calls in
+Norway sums up to, and the cost of data storage.</p>
 
 <p>The 2005 numbers are from
 <a href="http://www.digi.no/analyser/2005/10/04/vi-prater-stadig-mindre-i-roret">digi.no</a>,
@@ -49,9 +49,9 @@ to get the storage requirements.</p>
 
 <p>Storage prices varies a lot, depending on speed, backup strategies,
 availability requirements etc.  But a simple way to calculate can be
-to use the price of a TiB-disk (around 1000 NOK) and double it to take
-space, power and redundancy.  It could be much higher with high speed
-and good redundancy requirements.</p>
+to use the price of a TiB-disk (around 1000 NOK / 120 EUR) and double
+it to take space, power and redundancy.  It could be much higher with
+high speed and good redundancy requirements.</p>
 
 <p>But back to the question, What would it cost to store all phone
 calls in Norway?  Not much.  Here is a small table showing the
@@ -59,10 +59,10 @@ estimated cost, which is within the budget constraint of most medium
 and large organisations:</p>
 
 <table border="1">
-<tr><th>Year</th><th>Call minutes</th><th>Size</th><th>Price in NOK</th></tr>
-<tr><td>2005</td><td align="right">24 000 000 000</td><td align="right">1.3 PiB</td><td align="right">3 mill</td></tr>
-<tr><td>2012</td><td align="right">18 000 000 000</td><td align="right">1.0 PiB</td><td align="right">2.2 mill</td></tr>
-<tr><td>2013</td><td align="right">17 000 000 000</td><td align="right">950 TiB</td><td align="right">2.1 mill</td></tr>
+<tr><th>Year</th><th>Call minutes</th><th>Size</th><th>Price in NOK / EUR</th></tr>
+<tr><td>2005</td><td align="right">24 000 000 000</td><td align="right">1.3 PiB</td><td align="right">3 mill / 358k</td></tr>
+<tr><td>2012</td><td align="right">18 000 000 000</td><td align="right">1.0 PiB</td><td align="right">2.2 mill / 262k EUR</td></tr>
+<tr><td>2013</td><td align="right">17 000 000 000</td><td align="right">950 TiB</td><td align="right">2.1 mill/ 250k EUR</td></tr>
 </table>
 
 <p>This is the cost of buying the storage.  Maintenance need to be