Why you DON’T want a 20TB Hard Drive

[AnshumanthRao]

"when I met you 500 gigs harddrives were big" does he remember every life event based on storage capacity at the time

[robertse]

*releases a 20TB hard drive


AAA game devs: ah yes this must mean we can increase the size of the game by another 100GB

[brayannexon]

This definitely aged like milk here we are in 2022 and linus just bought 60 of these bad boys. Well done.

[DartzIRL]

Reminds me of the time the company I worked for had a server with HDD's in raid.

What happened was, one of the disks shat itself and - instead of leaving the array, instead somehow managed to mirror the corruption to the rest of the array. Including the year's accounts.

That business died.

In another business, the server Raid controller died. Not a problem, since the drives were supposed to be in Raid 1. Turns out, the IT shop that supplied the server had set them in Raid 0.

Hours of furious googling and a remote desktop session from my holiday home - because of course it happened while I was away - got the whole 4 terabytes imaged and backed up to a NAS.

Earned a bottle of fancy wine from the owner for doing that.

Nowadays, everything is in the cloud. I'm more worried about the cloud bursting than the drives shitting themselves. Drives can be recovered.

[simonchasnovsky]

New title: Linus's voice goes up to an effortless C6 when he gets passionate about hard drive sizes

[dennisl]

When Linus said that you can store your whole life on a 20tb hard drive, I had a flash back that in 1997 that my pc with a 4gig hard drive we were told that it would store everything we would ever need. How times have changed.

[FennecTECH]

20TB is perfect for a steam library or video archive. 20TB would be excelent to have in a raid 1 enclosure and use it as a giant storage drive for all your ripped dvds and cds and stuff. it’d also be pretty fine for steam games as those never write to the game data at runtime

[davedivesdeeper]

And now he’s using 20TB drives exclusively in his new build

[ebig]

this show should be dubbed "tech wife listens to her husband geeky bubbling"

[umeng]

"Check disk for errors" **dies of old age**

[codex]

I remember going into 6th grade in 2006-07 and having to get a flash drive. I got it from office max and it cost probably $20 for a 1gb model. I remember seeing an 8 GB flash drive the size of a portable HD for over $100 behind the counter.
You can now get 64GB mini flash drives for less than $20... Technology has advanced exponentially.

[nia]

1990: 20 MB seem a lot
2020: 20 TB seem a lot
2050: 20 Ex seem a lot
2120: 20 Yott seem a

[haziqali]

Finnaly... I can put my 18.5 tb of HOMEWORK


RIP internet connection

[shanejohns]

I'm old school here. I remember 5.25" really floppy floppy discs. Those 3.5" things were durable as hell compared to the 5.25". And when I was at university, my Amiga 500 was hooked up to a SCSI hard drive that was a whopping 500 megabytes. Nope. Not gigabytes. Megabytes. I was quite happy with my 'one half gigabyte' drive (which you could hear clear across the house).

[SaschaAM]

I really like them talking about tech stuff. It is so refreshing to have a person asking questions like she does, to make you think again about stuff you probably took for a given and ask yourself "actually, is it really the best way to do it that way?" I would love a format which follows this kind of idea. Even though getting them both on a stream talking about topics might not be easy for them, being parents and stuff.

[Okurka.]

"Why you DON’T want a 20TB Hard Drive"

Uses 16 TB drives in his NAS.

[koruki]

20TB drive is going to last a long time

COD: hold my update

[daveg]

I've got my entire life on a 4TB drive at 65% full, with an internal mirror drive (non-RAID), an external mirror drive, and cloud mirror of the important stuff. If I lost all of those at once I would cry. But I'm hoping redundancy wins out. Fingers crossed, I haven't lost a drive in about twenty years, but I do move the data to newer larger drives every five years or so as the data grows.

[aut_bedenis]

"Why you don't want 20TB Hard Drives?"

February 2022: "Look at those 20TB Enterprise Drives from Seagate for our new new vault!"

[brownishblue]

"You could have your entire life on a 20T"
My life could probably fit on an 8gb usb stick and that is the perfect media size to throw in the garbage, befitting it's content...