Those are very appropriate follow up questions I think. If someone tasks you to deal with 6 TiB of data, it is very appropriate to ask enough questions until y

Those are very appropriate follow up questions I think. If someone tasks you to deal with 6 TiB of data, it is very appropriate to ask enough questions until you can provide a good solution, far better than to assume the questions are unknowable and blindly architect for all use cases.