If you are having trouble getting 10TB of disk space from IT, you have bad IT. Not saying that's uncommon or anything, but 10TB fits on one external hard drive

If you are having trouble getting 10TB of disk space from IT, you have bad IT. Not saying that's uncommon or anything, but 10TB fits on one external hard drive for $300 from Best Buy, or less than $1000/mo using EBS on AWS if you need some better guarantees and are all-in on the cloud.