But, "never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of hard drives". The intriguing use case (thinking as a consumer) is ~2tb "hot", and effectivel

But, "never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of hard drives". The intriguing use case (thinking as a consumer) is ~2tb "hot", and effectively treating the remainder tape as kindof "append-only/WAL" (and: e.g. incremental backups). I have been randomly ripping my DVDs, mostly keeping the transcoded MP4s, but hesitant to delete the ISO's because they require physical handling and _time_ to re-rip. If it's ~2min to seek to an 8gb ISO, that's potentially faster than re-downloading it from somewhere offsite, and would match my hypothetical use cases really well. Keeping a local ~2tb drive backed up to a ~4tb+40tb "ssd-tape-hard-drive" is probably cheaper than most long-term cloud stuff (backblaze ~$6/tb/mo!!, glacier ~$4/tb/mo, but with lots of asterisks on retrieval time), and simpler than messing around with a NAS. Glad I don't truly have these problems!