This is pretty good news for those of who like to keep local collections of media.
In many ways, you can think of a datacenter’s use of hard drives as the ultimate test for a hard drive—you’re keeping a hard drive on and spinning for the max amount of hours, and often the amount of times you read/write files is well over what you’d ever see as a consumer. Industry trend-wise, drives are getting bigger, which means that oftentimes, folks are buying fewer of them. Reporting on how these drives perform in a data center environment, then, can give you more confidence that whatever drive you’re buying is a good investment.
Depends on the consumer. My x2 HDDs (7.27 TB total) have seen at least ~765 TB in reads and ~60 TB in writes since Dec 2021. True number is likely somewhat higher, especially for writes.