"Mike Marlow" writes:
Swingman wrote:
On 4/19/2012 10:08 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:

Thank you! A good backup strategy will never come close to a
terabyte for a good sized corporation, let alone any PC home
applications.

Even small businesses these days, particularly using media like videos
and multitrack recording for will run through a terabyte of data in
short order, and data that must be backed up with regard to version
control makes it even worse.


Oh stop Swing. What are you speaking about when you say videos and
multitrack recording? Even in a recording environment, a terabyte is a lot
of data. But - even if there are specialized industries that do indeed
require that kind of storage, it's still very far from the topic at hand,
which is more about PC storage - for the most of us. Again - even very
significant corporations do not require this level of backup. The fact that
a particular niche may require it is the anomoly.

If you have 700 CD's that's about 400 GB ripped as 16-bit stereo PCM (.wav).
If you have 1000 DVD's, that's about 4096 GB (4 TB). A single Blu-ray is 25 to 50 GB.

It's useful to have on a hard disk for media centers feeding stereos and
media players (now built into your TV).


scott