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Home users that want to store tens of TB of data are highly unlikely to need fast access to most of it. A large personal movie collection never needs more perfo
by wtallis 6y ago
Home users that want to store tens of TB of data are highly unlikely to need fast access to most of it. A large personal movie collection never needs more performance than a single hard drive offers. An incremental backup archive is not performance-critical while adding new backups, and restoring from backup is infrequent enough that it's not worth paying an order of magnitude higher for better restore performance. A video game collection can see some benefit from faster storage, but it's still cheaper and easier to shuffle games in and out of local ~1TB SSD storage than to establish high-speed access to a solid-state NAS.