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"  Seagate is winning the storage wars. Today it shipped its first 8 terabyte external hard drives to earlybird customers. It&amp;#039;s the largest total anybody has ever crammed onto a 3.5-inch drive, TechCrunch says, double the 4 TB that had been the record up until last year. Later in the year the 8 TB drive will go on the open market, probably for a few hundred dollars apiece. But let&amp;#039;s be real: If you&amp;#039;re going to buy one of these things, you should buy at least two. Earlier today I mentioned the Seagate to someone in the office who&amp;#039;s the kind of guy who&amp;#039;s got every episode of every great show stashed on a drive somewhere\u2014you know, in case the world ends but the power stays on. He&amp;#039;s got two 3 TB drives and another 1.5 TB drive full of data, all of which would fit on the remarkable helium-free Seagate. But holy crap is that a lot of data to lose if the drive should ever disappear or fail. So, at the very least, you need a second 8 TB drive to back up what&amp;#039;s on your first one. What else are you gonna do, rent 8 TB of space on the cloud? Secondly, fanboys abhor a vacuum. If you have that much storage space, you going to want to fill it up with stuff. And then you&amp;#039;re a digital hoarder. And then you need another drive, and another drive to serve as that drive&amp;#039;s backup. It&amp;#039;s Seagates all the way down. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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