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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Seagate has launched a massive 29TB hard disk drive that almost nobody noticed — but you can only buy the biggest ever HDD in a 2.5PB 4U server (www.techradar.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

"The 4RU chassis can be fitted with 106 3.5-inch hard drives..."

106 x 29 = 3074 terabytes

2.5 petabytes = 2500 terabytes

3074 - 2500 = 574 terabytes

574 / 29 = 19.79 so about 19 or 20 drives out of the total 106 used for (parity? hot swap?).

I have a feeling that this might be slightly out of my budget.