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Wow, that's crazy. I can't wait for the current 16TB drives to be replaced in datacenters and go on sale for cheap! :D
where do you even buy those?
Diskprices.com.
Well, you don't buy them there, but they have links.
Any SAS drive is essentially a data center drive, or at least was likely deployed in a business-class RAID system.
Are they ill tempered?
Super excited about this tech.
My only concern with getting such a big drive for personal use is if I put all my data on it because it can hold it, then it's one point of failure for my backup.
I will probably get some of these drives for myself, but I will probably get some smaller 16tb or 8tb drives to spread out my data more
Why in gods name would anyone not be running RAID or virtual disk pools for important storage?
It’s 2025.
Yes, and also: RAID is not backup.
It is with two separate ZFS pools mirroring one another.
It's redundancy for hardware failure.
Mirroring is generally pretty bad for backup because it misses some of the most likely cause of data loss. Accidental deletions and malware such as ransomware.
If I could double up on the drives I would have more redundant backups.
That's what RAID is, just having more drives with backups in case a drive fails.