> A 12 TB HDD requires 10 GB/day for three years to be filled. [...] hoarding (by today's standards). You have an interesting argument - by the same reasoning,

> A 12 TB HDD requires 10 GB/day for three years to be filled. [...] hoarding (by today's standards). You have an interesting argument - by the same reasoning, when one has eventually filled up a 12 TB HDD, it would no longer be hoarding by tomorrow's standard. In other words, at this point, one should be able to get the next generation of HDDs for cheap, and it's this fact that makes all tape drives unnecessary. Now I wonder whether it was a mistake for me to buy a spare 14 TB HDD to 1:1 mirror my new file server for cold backup. Perhaps a smaller one should be good for 5 years anyway...