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I’d argue they already are, it’s not infeasible to get ~320tb into an overstuffed NAS (two 10 drive arrays with two drives as parity) currently with a few drives being overly hot and we’re seeing HAMR hit the market now and should probably easily see density double before too long. We’re at the point you can home movie library the size of a streaming site’s library for less than 10k without needing a rack. If you drop density a bit and use used enterprise SAS drives you could probably get things done for 5k + a decent power bill. Still inaccessible to most but plenty accessible to an enthusiast with some disposable income.

QLC would be nice for such a home application over noise/space/power usage concerns but the cost is still extremely high.