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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016 by Symbiote on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @02:17PM (#13534185)
I'm amazed that personal use requires 188TB of storage.

That's more than my employer's Hadoop cluster...

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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016 by itchyouch on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @08:11PM (#13537191)
I could see that getting filled up easily with a vast 1080p TV/Movie collection. Movies coming in at 1080p eats up disk really quickly.

Uncompressed 4k @ 24fps, at 10bit color comes in at 324MB/s, so just being a wedding videographer could be 1.1T per hour of video. Any given small project could eat up 15-20T per project.

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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016 by handruin on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @06:17PM (#13536392)
I never said I required this much for personal use...I just have it. :)

I started with 12 x 4TB in one NAS and I filled it in a little over 2 years. I just recently built a second NAS with 20 x 6TB to last me hopefully for the next several years.

The other remaining drives unaccounted for are in two workstations for local storage.

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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016 by avn2109 on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @03:21PM (#13534820)
Maybe he does his own offsite backups with "personal use" HD's in several physical locations, each in a highly-redundant raid configuration?

Even so it seems like a lot.

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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016 by antisthenes on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @07:25PM (#13536900)
Someone's gotta back up that climate data...
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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016 by handruin on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @09:19PM (#13537612)
Actually...I am doing some of that also.
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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016 by overcast on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @02:20PM (#13534221)
Small hadron collider?
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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016 by userbinator on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @10:58PM (#13538112)
Perhaps a small hardon collider.

(Context: http://archive.fortune.com/2006/11/30/magazines/fortune/obri... )

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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016 by nerdponx on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @08:12AM (#13540423)
I was debating whether I should "favorite" this thread. You made my decision for me, thank you.
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