# Best Pricepoint for 6-10 TB of Ext HD Storage Space?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 26, 2008, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pricepoint-for-6-10-tb-of-ext-hd-storage-space/450615 "2008-05-26T02:54:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Internut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5daacb/32.png) [@Internut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Internut)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pricepoint-for-6-10-tb-of-ext-hd-storage-space/450615/21 "2008-05-27T19:04:00Z")

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Drive capacity is growing at a rate faster than most people can consume it. My 8Gb iPhone is big _enough_ to easily handle my needs away form the 320 Gb drive in my laptop…what happens when the _cheap_ iPhone has 320 Gb and a 5 MB/s pipe to the internet?  
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Sorry for the tangent, but I got a new dell with 160 Gigs.. my old laptop had 30.. wow, I’ll never use that much! That’ll last me forever!

A month into it and I had 70 or so filled.. 2 months and I was up to 130.

(and no.. it wasn’t porn)

I had to get an external TB drive and burn LOTS of data to dvd to keep THAT from getting filled up. Way different mindset than 2004 when I had my laptop stolen.

(back to your regularly scheduled thread)

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**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pricepoint-for-6-10-tb-of-ext-hd-storage-space/450615/22 "2008-05-27T19:44:42Z")

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[QUOTE=Unintentionally Blank]  
For a little less money (and a little less storage, but future upgradability) you could get a drobo and 4 1 Tb drives:  
[http://www.drobo.com/drobolator/index.html](http://www.drobo.com/drobolator/index.html)

But you’d only get 2.7 Tb of available storage space.

You’re swinging for the fences with that 6 Tb requirement. You can do it, but it’ll cost…and 4 years from now, you’ll buy a 6 Tb drive for $120 at Best Buy.  
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That’s a nifty and convenient piece of hardware!

**puts it on wish list**

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