It's very Practical
Tape backups are still used today. The drive capacity got a lot bigger.
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My first NAS was 16TB, of which 12TB is usable. I thought it wouldn't be enough, considering my stack of old drives and thousands of images stored thereupon, but it turns out that I'm only using about 6TB at the moment.
Even so, I'm building, on advice from kind members here, a new NAS (the first was off the shelf) that will have 6-7 2TB drives running on a NAS4free OS. I can't quite yet justify the expenditure (large for poor me) required for a Wendell-approved system (but one day, oh yes, one day!!).
I really need to get a copy of my vital data, about 4TB worth, copied and sent somewhere remote. Having all this data locally, no matter how many copies I make, is asking for trouble.
So, to answer the OP's question: about 12TB mirrored would do the trick at this time; ubiquitous gb internet would definitely change that equation though.
Definetly create a thread about this! It's an interesting discussion and there's lots of people that think as you do. I'm not one of them :p as we can definitely have the best of both worlds IMO so a thread would be interesting.
As for storage. I'm at 2tb justnow with little redundancy. That shall be fixed with an update in the future still undecided I'm estimating 6-10tb
Have a look at backblazes blog they do a lot of tests regarding HDDs including comparisons, failure rate, etc.
At the 3tb rages Samsung/Seagate are to be avoided. As that seems to be a problem drove for them.
To my mind there isn't a "trusted service" anymore. If you need cloud access to your files, roll your own services and encrypt everything as much as your upload/download speeds allow.
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I currently have 2TB after setting up FreeNAS, and like the fact that I have control of my data. The only issues I have, compared to cloud storage, is the convenience of accessing the data on the move, away from my network, and backing up all the data, should I loose the NAS box. Cloud storage seems far too convenient when you consider these issues.
Improved networks from isps would solve that. At some point there going to have to acknowledge that people also want decent upload speed as well. With fibre this is slowly happening in the UK. It's just amazing that our so called first would countries are being heavily out done by pretty much everyone else in that area.
As for backup.. Again solved with a little effort. Improved upload would help and there's nothing stopping you putting a backup somewhere. I supose its just time and money. You can do it yourself and pay or encrypt and use Amazon's cold storage and pay
Sadly, I'm far too busy to do this just yet, but it's on the list. :) Gotta get a file server box running first, don't have the parts just yet.
Currently I have a nas with 2TB of usable space, and a "server" with a single 1TB a pc with a 500GB and a 1TB.
I would like a new nas with 4 2TB drives and a similar amount in my "server" so I can have multiple backups. Right now I have enough space just barely, my server runs VM's and one vm is holding the nas backup(roughly 600GB), I would also like to get an external drive to take with me for my third backup incase theft/fire/flood/life happens to the server and nas.
Wow, you guys have a lot of storage... must have big collections of stuff.
I have 64 GB SSD
500 GB SSD
2 TB 7200 harddrive in NAS
I feel insignificant...
To be honest, the 2 TB drive is fine for me. I stream video, and music, so I'm actually finding my storage needs getting smaller.
See, I don't like streaming. My collections of music, TV and movies are something I want instant access to after paying once, not something I want to suddenly not have access to because someone didn't like their deal with my favorite service.
< 5 TB for me. Though, were I to get more organized, I'd like a 50 TB repository and curate a library of content I would like to keep around forever. Wendel mentioned he has a personal-assistant like setup that gets interesting articles for him, and I keep meaning to look into it.
Well I have plenty of free space, I don't think I would like to have more than what I need, I certainly wouldn't want to pay for it :P
I'd be pretty happy with maybe a 60GiB SSD for my root and boot partition (currently only using 12GB out of 110), and maybe 6TiB for my home partition. I have a lot of films and TV shows, and I like FLAC. I'd probably be fine with that for the next while, assuming file sizes stay similar.
Then again, my internet connection is pretty slow, I get maybe 900KiB/s down. If it were faster, I'd probably use more storage.
Perhaps another few terabytes for storing backups.
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You must be joking to say thats slow..
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Oh my. That is a rather embarassing typo! I meant KiB/s, and I get that on a very good day. Uploads are usually around 30KiB/s.
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I'm baffled by how much storage you guys want and use.
Several guys here have way more then I do, but I will proabably be needing more as i would like to get my dvd's into digital. most of my current storage is backups, and music, and daily backups of my minecraft server ~8GB every day(when compressed), which has been changed to once a week now.
All my music, all my movies, all my emails, duplication, offline caches of certain websites, and any thing else I want. I may even host a few game servers. The problem I think is that the more storage you have, the more you find that you can save.