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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
I use it for... well... Storage. The main array is a 76TB array in triple-parity mode giving 64TB usable. Backup storage is a 25TB array.
Aside from the usual suspects (movies, porn, other downloaded warez) it also stores backups of most of my machines, and my own photo/video collection. And several dozen virtual machines I can't be bothered going through before deleting.
I also used to do a lot of freelance data recovery work and imaging four or five 500GB-1TB drives at a time, plus extra space to store the data recovered off them...
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The storage I "need" these days is probably closer to about 10TB. 2-3TBs are my own photo/video collection, as a photographer I'm pretty lazy and shoot everything in maximum quality RAW+JPEG so a single image (which my camera takes 5 per second of) is 30MB. I sometimes shoot as many as 2000 a day and over a decade it adds up...
Also my camera's hacked to record HD video at 200Mbps which probably doesn't help.
Do I "require" any of it? Probably not, given the number of times I've had a drive/memory card fail and lose hundreds of gigabtyes of hugely important data, yet I'm still alive...
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This is a great example of how Technology has advanced in quality and price in the last ten or so years.
In 2001, I undertook a trip to the USA (on behalf of BT Cellnet, when I was the IT Programme Manager on the Data Warehousing programme) - we visited a number of sites (Pittsburg, Little Rock, St Louis, and Montreal) to look at what was (at the time) leading edge in DW, focusing on Telecoms and CRM companies. The site in Little Rock had one of the biggest (not including NSA) Data Warehouses for CRM, and it was 25TB useable space (they used RAID1 at the time).
How things have changed......
