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Toshiba to double HDD production capacity amid devastating shortages — 65TB, 100TB drives on the roadmap (www.tomshardware.com)
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Apparently WD and Seagate stock have already taken a hit at the announcement.

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[-] scallisto@retrofed.com 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Larger storage is good for videos (think Blu-rays, 4K videos are very big! Security camera feeds could also take up lots of space), and you might also want to host for multiple users (for family, friends, or a business)

But yes, _100_TB is a lot. 8-24TB (before memory became super expensive) was reasonable for most consumers, usually in a RAID configuration for redundancy. Multiple smaller drives are more reliable and modular than a single big one!

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