"when I met you 500 gigs harddrives were big" does he remember every life event based on storage capacity at the time

*releases a 20TB hard drive

This definitely aged like milk here we are in 2022 and linus just bought 60 of these bad boys. Well done.

Reminds me of the time the company I worked for had a server with HDD's in raid.

this show should be dubbed "tech wife listens to her husband geeky bubbling"

New title: Linus's voice goes up to an effortless C6 when he gets passionate about hard drive sizes

20TB is perfect for a steam library or video archive. 20TB would be excelent to have in a raid 1 enclosure and use it as a giant storage drive for all your ripped dvds and cds and stuff. it’d also be pretty fine for steam games as those never write to the game data at runtime

Fun fact: He classed this as a date.

When Linus said that you can store your whole life on a 20tb hard drive, I had a flash back that in 1997 that my pc with a 4gig hard drive we were told that it would store everything we would ever need. How times have changed.

1990: 20 MB seem a lot

I really like them talking about tech stuff. It is so refreshing to have a person asking questions like she does, to make you think again about stuff you probably took for a given and ask yourself "actually, is it really the best way to do it that way?" I would love a format which follows this kind of idea. Even though getting them both on a stream talking about topics might not be easy for them, being parents and stuff.

"Why you don't want 20TB Hard Drives?"

"Check disk for errors"

"Why you DON’T want a 20TB Hard Drive"

I remember going into 6th grade in 2006-07 and having to get a flash drive. I got it from office max and it cost probably $20 for a 1gb model. I remember seeing an 8 GB flash drive the size of a portable HD for over $100 behind the counter.

I'm old school here. I remember 5.25" really floppy floppy discs. Those 3.5" things were durable as hell compared to the 5.25". And when I was at university, my Amiga 500 was hooked up to a SCSI hard drive that was a whopping 500 megabytes. Nope. Not gigabytes. Megabytes. I was quite happy with my 'one half gigabyte' drive (which you could hear clear across the house).

Finnaly... I can put my 18.5 tb of HOMEWORK

I am asking for 20TB HDDs. I am a data hoarder.

And now he’s using 20TB drives exclusively in his new build

I've got my entire life on a 4TB drive at 65% full, with an internal mirror drive (non-RAID), an external mirror drive, and cloud mirror of the important stuff. If I lost all of those at once I would cry. But I'm hoping redundancy wins out. Fingers crossed, I haven't lost a drive in about twenty years, but I do move the data to newer larger drives every five years or so as the data grows.