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That's a lot of porn. And possibly other stuff, too.
You need a week to fill the hecking disk. flips server rack up in disappointment
But this would be great for tape-like storage where you only need to write once and maybe query little individual bits of it. Slap RAID on top of it and you've got yourself your own nation state intelligence service datastore.
So how much data would I lose when it dies?
Edit for those who didn’t read the smirk, yes 36Tb, as a way to point out what someone answered below: if you’re using a drive this big have your data recovery procedures on fleek.
Assuming you aren't striping, up to 36 TB. If you follow even halfway decent practices with basically any kind of RAID other than 0, hopefully 0 Bytes.
The main worry with stuff like this is that it potentially takes a while to recover from a failed drive even if you catch it in time (alert systems are your friend). And 36 TB is a LOT of data to work through and recover which means a LOT of stress on the remaining drives for a few days.
It would probably take days to rebuild the array.
It's important to also note that RAID (or alternatives such as unRAID) are not backup systems and should not be relied on as such. If you have a severe brownout that fries more than two or three drives at once, for example, you will lose data if you're not backing up.
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I think if I needed to store 36TB of data, I would rather get several smaller disks.
But if you need a Petabyte of data you'll appreciate this existing
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