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by Symbiote 3428 days ago
I'm amazed that personal use requires 188TB of storage.

That's more than my employer's Hadoop cluster...

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I could see that getting filled up easily with a vast 1080p TV/Movie collection. Movies coming in at 1080p eats up disk really quickly.

Uncompressed 4k @ 24fps, at 10bit color comes in at 324MB/s, so just being a wedding videographer could be 1.1T per hour of video. Any given small project could eat up 15-20T per project.

I never said I required this much for personal use...I just have it. :)

I started with 12 x 4TB in one NAS and I filled it in a little over 2 years. I just recently built a second NAS with 20 x 6TB to last me hopefully for the next several years.

The other remaining drives unaccounted for are in two workstations for local storage.

Maybe he does his own offsite backups with "personal use" HD's in several physical locations, each in a highly-redundant raid configuration?

Even so it seems like a lot.

Someone's gotta back up that climate data...
Actually...I am doing some of that also.
Small hadron collider?
Perhaps a small hardon collider.

(Context: http://archive.fortune.com/2006/11/30/magazines/fortune/obri... )

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