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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 11 months ago

This is all nice but when it takes 3-weeks to check the volume or add a drive that's gonna suck. With spinning media there's a benefit to more smaller drives since you can read/write from many. I'm not saying I wouldn't want these just that if I didn't have petabytes of data I'd stick with more drives of smaller size. Unless of course their speed increases. Spinning media isn't getting faster as quickly as it's getting bigger. So. When your scrubbing or anything I would expect you could scrub 5x20tb a lot quicker than 1x100tb. So. As I see it. This is niche for me.