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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016 by jandrese on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @04:00PM (#13535173)
Editing also tends to create a lot of huge temporary and intermediate files that will eat up disk space in a hurry. 188TB is a lot of space, but nowhere near unreasonable for someone doing video work. Plus, as other people have mentioned you need to account for filesystem overhead, redundancy (RAID), backups, TB vs. TiB, and so on.

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