Devices arrive faster than any team can examine them. Every one holds more data than the one before it. Hiring doesn't close that gap, because the volume grows faster than headcount ever can.
By noon, the first drive was still processing.
A single 1 TB device takes 4–6 hours before anyone can even look at it.
By Friday, the queue grew faster than it shrank.
Devices with nothing on them cost the same processing time, shelf space and waiting as the one that breaks the case open.
And the people who can clear it are the scarcest resource.
Senior examiner time goes to repetitive sorting instead of analysis, testimony and case strategy.
Every one of these is time spent before an examiner forms a single opinion.