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What's the biggest HDD out there? I mean at sizes this big it's a lot of data to lose in one go if it dies. Even if you have backups or whatever that's a lot to have to restore.
Are we including magnetic tape?
Looks like they hit 580 TB a few years ago: https://www.pcmag.com/news/fujifilm-and-ibm-set-world-record-with-580tb-magnetic-tapes
I like 8TB drives for media. I know the rules of safe backup say you should have 3 copies, but I just have another 8TB drive for each one that's in use and I do a sync every few months. The backup drives, when not hooked up to sync for backup, sit safely in anti static bags inside the boxes they came in, in a file cabinet drawer.
Who sells 80TB HDDs? None on the market that I know of.
I've seen SSDs hit 100TB, but those are $40k+. And more "reasonable" options like 64TB for $10k or so.
HDDs just reached 30TB, but I don't think those are widely available yet. 24TB is the biggest you can expect to see for sale.
Ok so I'm wondering WTF he's talking about.
Did he mean 8TB maybe?
I meant 8 TB
You are probably expected to buy like 100+ of these at a time.
Biggest HDDs are like 28TB max atm?