16TB is a single hard drive these days. It's easier to grab everything at that point instead of picking through, and having everything gives you a nice easy claim you can make.
You can split it into two drives at about the same price. Or add a backup drive to minimize the risk.
Though I would say that thinking you need a certain amount of data safety is more of an unhealthy thought pattern than saying "sure, give me all the movies for my $250 drive".
> Though I would say that thinking you need a certain amount of data safety is more of an unhealthy thought pattern
WTF is that? anybody that doesn't think about data safety deserves having their data lost. and if you come back with "just download it again" just proves why you don't need to have it downloaded locally to start
That is toxic. That toxicity is worse than "wasting" a single drive.
> and if you come back with "just download it again" just proves why you don't need to have it downloaded locally to start
How about "you can get most of it back, and it's okay to have a collection that's at risk of partial loss (good luck making any physical collection immune to loss)"
You're trading off the time to get things back and the percent you can get back for the cost of [redundant] backups.
> need to have it downloaded locally
Nobody suggested it needs to be downloaded. Do you only have data that you need to have?
