I'm saying less than 1 petabyte is a small amount of data for long-term storage. 30TB is large if your talking about daily network activity or your personal ph

I'm saying less than 1 petabyte is a small amount of data for long-term storage. 30TB is large if your talking about daily network activity or your personal photo collection, or the size of one SSD that can fit in a laptop. Many businesses have digitized records 50+ years old. Even newer businesses can hit the 1pb mark. Older businesses might primarily store accounting records. Businesses in Machine Learning are interested in much more data.