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This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast!
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I deal with large data chunks and 40TB drives are an interesting idea.... until you consider one failing
raids and arrays for these large data sets still makes more sense then all the eggs in smaller baskets
You'd still put the 40TB drives in a raid? But eventually you'll be limited by the number of bays, so larger size is better.
Of course, because you don't want to lose the data if one of the drives dies. And backing up that much data is painful.