Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016
by Nadya on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @03:08PM
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Anyone working with video, 3D animation, storing RAW photography (and taking 100's of photos on a daily basis), and I can imagine a few other purposes. Especially if you want an on-site backup of that data.
I've bought 10TB of storage space every year for the past 3 years and don't see myself stopping. I need the storage space! If these data-heavy hobbies were instead my daytime job I could easily see myself needing 100TB+ in storage (and then 100TB+ of backups). I fill roughly 8TB/year in storage space (4TB of data + 4TB backup data).
Some people believe in redundant backups. I only have redundant backups of extremely important information - which are mostly text documents so don't take up much space. But if someone was storing 3 copies of all of their media assets you end up using a lot of space. For example, 10TB of video turns into 30TB of video. And 180TB is really only 60TB of data, which isn't that much for data heavy hobbies.
I've bought 10TB of storage space every year for the past 3 years and don't see myself stopping. I need the storage space! If these data-heavy hobbies were instead my daytime job I could easily see myself needing 100TB+ in storage (and then 100TB+ of backups). I fill roughly 8TB/year in storage space (4TB of data + 4TB backup data).
Some people believe in redundant backups. I only have redundant backups of extremely important information - which are mostly text documents so don't take up much space. But if someone was storing 3 copies of all of their media assets you end up using a lot of space. For example, 10TB of video turns into 30TB of video. And 180TB is really only 60TB of data, which isn't that much for data heavy hobbies.