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Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate (www.vice.com)
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[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

And I would go so far as to say that nobody who is buying 36 TB spinners is doing offsite backups of that data.

Was this a typo? I would expect that almost everyone who is buying these is doing offsite backups. Who has this amount of data density and is ok with losing it?

Yes, they are quite possibly using tape for these backups (either directly or through some cloud service) but you still want offsite backups. Otherwise a bad fire and you lose it all.