Seems fine with a couple TB of SSDs to act as active storage with regular rsyncs back to the HDDs. This is fine.

Nah, the other stuff will all fit on your computer's hard drive, this is only for porn. They should call it the Porn Drive.

This hard drive is so big that when it sits around the house, it sits around the house.

The first copy of anything big will suck ass.... and why else would you get a 36TB drive if not to copy a lot of data to it?

This hard drive is so big when it moves, the Richter scale picks it up.

This hard drive is so big when it backs up it makes a beeping sound.

I'm amazed it's only $800. I figured that shit was gonna be like 8-10 thousand.

Does it really matter that much if the first copy takes a while though? Only doing it once and you don't even have to do it all in 1 go. Just let it run over the weekend would do though.

Every manufacturer has made a product that failed.

My primary storage use-case is physical media backups. I literally don't care how long it takes to store, a bluray is 70GB and I've got around 200 of em to backup.

Yeah, I expected it to level out around $800 after a few years, not out of the gate. 20TB are still $300 ish new.

Use redundancy. Don't be a pleb.

I can certainly understand holding grudges against corporations. I didn’t buy anything from Sony for a very long time after their fuckery with George Hotz and Nintendo's latest horseshit has me staying away from them, but that was a single firmware bug that locked down hard drives (note, the data was still intact) a very long time ago. Seagate even issued a firmware update to prevent the bug from biting users it hadn’t hit yet, but firmware updates at the time weren’t really something people thought to ever do, and operating systems did not check for them automatically back then like they do now.

Seagate fucked up but they also did everything they could to make it right. That matters. Plus, look at their competition. WD famously lied about their red drives not being SMR when they actually were. And I’ve only ever had WD hard drives and sandisk flash drives die on me. And guess who owns sandisk? Western Digital!

I guess if you must go with a another company, there’s the louder and more expensive Toshiba drives but I have never used those before so I know nothing about them aside from their reputation for being loud.

Me who stores important data on seagate external HDD with no backup reading the comments roasting seagate:

but not every manufacturer has had class action lawsuits filed against their continued shitty products.

Especially VR files

So if you have been around long enough you might remember the Hitachi (IBM) deathstars https://wizardprang.wordpress.com/2013/10/14/the-last-deathstar/

I see Hitachi and think no fucking way, where as Seagate I used to see as an always yes. Now I just stick the disks in a zfs array and call it done

What I'm really waiting for is large capacity ssds with sata.

This hard drive is so big, when I tried to weigh it the scale just said “one at a time please”.

Uh oh!!! Uh oh uh oh uh oh uh oh

This hard drives so big, that two people can access it at the same time and never meet.