Comment on After 7-Year Hiatus, Western Digital Unveils 6TB 2.5-Inch Hard Drives

Trex202@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Videography Photography Downloading Machine Learning Models Data for Training ML Models Training ML Models Gaming (the games themselves or saving replays) Backing up movies/videos/images etc. Backing up music NAS

  Take your pick, feel free to mix and match or add on to the list.

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  • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And music production, that takes a tonne of space.

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• KaRunChiy@kbin.run ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Porn

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• HKayn@dormi.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My GOG and Bandcamp libraries.

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• helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Large capacity drives are good for backups, especially if you’re backing a lot of media, such as a DVD/Bluray collection.

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• bamboo@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Scientific workloads often involve very large datasets. It might be high resolution data captured from various sensors, or it might be more “normal” data but in huge quantities. Assuming the data itself is high quality, larger datasets mean more accurate conclusions.

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