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I remember reading an interesting take on the 20TB drives when they came out - the impact of drive failure skyrockets with large density drives.
I like the idea of higher density drives, but in my opinion they only really make sense in large drive arrays where you can spread the data over dozens and dozens of replicated drives.
Luckily the ones that are considering buying this have that or something similar and/or extensive backups.
Oh definitely. I'm sure backblaze and the like will pick these right up.
I do miss being able to back up my 8 GB drive onto five bucks' worth of CD-Rs.
I do not miss having only 8 GB to work with.