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[–] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 60 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Man, I remember when someone on reddit got mad upvotes for saying "5tb hard drives don't exist" in response to me, as the external 5tb hdd I was using sat 2ft away from me.

And here we are looking at the [BRAND] advertisement for 120TB drives.

[–] exscape@kbin.social 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure they were referring to how the more common sizes are 1, 2, 4, 8, 10, 12 TB and so on. 6 is semi-common. 5 is relatively rare, so they probably didn't realize they exist.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

And any 8TB disk with bad blocks makes a fine 5TB disk.

[–] criitz@reddthat.com 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I own a couple of 5TB drives. At the time when 8TB and above were rare and expensive, it wasn't that strange.

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Still rocking an Xbox one with a 4tb external drive. It's got to be going on 10 years old at this point

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