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Toshiba to double HDD production capacity amid devastating shortages — 65TB, 100TB drives on the roadmap (www.tomshardware.com)
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Apparently WD and Seagate stock have already taken a hit at the announcement.

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[–] 26 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Even if you do need 100 TB of storage, I feel like it'd be a lot better to have multiple smaller drives rather than one massive one. To be fair, though, I'd expect such large drives to be targeted mostly to commercial customers.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (6 children)

    Yeah, if get a few bad sectors suddenly you're spending most of a day backing things up.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    You should've been backing things up already.

    "If you have one, you have none".

    Without proper backup your data is just waiting to disappear at the first unrecoverable failure.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    And it can be fairly invisible in day-day use with 4 drives set up in RAID5.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    just remember that raid is not a backup

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I meant to get back to ask you what you meant by this.

    My (novice-level) understanding was R5 would give you redundancy and a way to restore one of your drives if it went down unrecoverably.

    Is that just wrong, or it doesn’t count as a backup?

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