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by brazzy 4751 days ago
> With that logic I could say my laptop is designed to store yottabytes of data, just because I think that maybe at some point in the future it could.

Except you'd probably be wrong. Your filesystem almost certainly can't handle that much space. ext4 maxes out at 1 Exabyte. NTFS might barely make it if you use GPT and oversized sectors and don't run into any unforeseen problems.