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Toshiba to double HDD production capacity amid devastating shortages — 65TB, 100TB drives on the roadmap
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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.
My 116TB pirate ship could use a few more 100TBs to keep afloat.
I'm in a smaller, but similar boat with my 40TB. A few of the drives are pretty old now, and i would prefer swapping them out before they die.
Large drives are convenient for 3 2 1 backup. Not all your storage needs or even should be ssd or raid 5.
Yeah, if get a few bad sectors suddenly you're spending most of a day backing things up.
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.
Backing up with an increased frequency to mitigate the lost time.
And it can be fairly invisible in day-day use with 4 drives set up in RAID5.
just remember that raid is not a backup
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?
it works thst way if a drive fails, yes, but not if your computer crashes in the wrong way or you accidentally delete a file.
A backup has protection against these.