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I just checked out the price of that 14tb seagate drive and you can get 2 of their 10tb drives for the same cost of 1 14tb drive. Who is buying this 14tb drive

• Nadya 8y ago
  People who need mass storage and either have limited space or want to maximize the space they do have. A thirty-two drive rack full of 14TB drives is 448TB of storage space instead of 320TB (thirty-two 10TB drives). And if you only need 320TB of storage you only need a rack that holds twenty-three drives - so you might downsize to a twenty-four drive rack. I updated a lot of my 4/6TB drives to 8TB drives for this reason: too much physical space was being taken up on my desk by having so many 4TB drives.
• Someone 8y ago
  You can fit more terabytes in a rack, and (likely; I haven’t checked) use less power and cooling per terabyte of storage, at the cost (again: likely; I haven’t checked) of performance. Including the cost of racks and power, this may even be cheaper.