__O__M__G__ things like hard drives are going crazy!
This morning I browsed through five different online stores, phoned to six physical ones, and none of them can sell me anything under 2Tbyte!!!
"
sorry, the minimal size we have is 2Tbyte"
Which is not exactly correct,
Seagate still has some
BarraCuda 500GByte HDD in their catalog, but no-store has it for sale, and if you contact a
Seagate dealer ... there is a minimal order of 100 units.
So I have just contacted my usual CDD ("computer-drug dealer"), and ordered qty=8 sATA 250GB disks!
(yes,yes,yes, I know ... you can find some on Amazon, but ... I'm paranoid about HDDs ... on Amazon they are usually declared "brand new" while they are second hand, refurbished, cleaned and polished .... sometimes not even very well and find other people's files on the HDD
anyway ...)
Jesus, I have a couple of twin SCSI-to-sATA box, the firmware can only address 1Tbyte of total space, and there are 4 HDD slots, I cannot mount four HDDs of 2TByte each! Neither I can mount 500GByte each (unless I am ready to downgrade the capacity to the half)
4x250GByte = 1TByte -> perfect!
4x500GByte = 2TByte -> on each disk, 50% space wasted
1Tbyte of total space looked so huuuuuuuugggggggeeeeeeee when I bought the storage-box (in 2009), nowadays it's nothing because people is looking for things like the
Synology-DiskStation-DS1821 with eight HDD bays, and then each disk is about
14Tbyte 14Tbyte on a single physical HDD, I didn't even think it existed, and that DiskStation has 8 bays of them

and 8 x 14Tbyte = ....?!?!?#~'~...... WTF <0---+++
it's too big, my mind is 32bit, it overflows
I can't count, can you?

I can't use such a storage-thing, too big, can you?
Seriously, I cannot even imagine how you can format and use so big storage space.
For Youtube video? Or for what?
Are those huge DISKs reliable? Or too dense (too many Gbyte per mm^2)? Hence prone to failure?
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