> A 12 TB HDD requires 10 GB/day for three years to be filled. This is not home market (...) You're basing your argument on extreme and unrepresentative assump

> A 12 TB HDD requires 10 GB/day for three years to be filled. This is not home market (...) You're basing your argument on extreme and unrepresentative assumptions. First of all, you do not need to fill a storage device to the brim to justify it's use. You can use the exact same rationale to claim no one needs 500GB HDs even though they are pretty much standard these days. Additionally, you falsely assume that your data storage needs start the very moment someone buys a drive, and up till then they have no data lying around. That's not the case at all. People buy high-density storage devices because they already have the data lying around, and they don't want to lose it. You're ignoring that people already have piles of CDRs/DVDs/Blu-ray disks lying around. Additionally, you are somehow assuming that people would buy storage devices for their density, ignoring their primary use case: long term data preservation.