I don’t think so—if you have enough money you can just buy a pretty much idiot-proof NAS box (e.g. a Synology one) with as much storage as you want. Let me remind you that you can buy a 3Tb hard drive for about $140 now.
Which is not something that the typical person, i.e. someone who barely understands the notion of “folders”, can do. I despair at the thought of explaining that some of their data exists on the laptop and some of it on this box over there, let alone how and when to move data between them.
There is no guarantee that there exists some way for them to understand.
Consider the possibility that it’s only possible for people with nontrivial level of understanding to work with 5TB+ amounts of data. It could be a practical boost in capability due to understanding storage technology principles and tools… maybe?
What level of sophistication would you think is un-idiot-proof-able? Nuclear missiles? not-proven-to-be-friendly-AI?
Multiple disks, though, and setting up a system like that—RAIDZ2, whatever—requires a nontrivial level of understanding to go with the benefits.
I don’t think so—if you have enough money you can just buy a pretty much idiot-proof NAS box (e.g. a Synology one) with as much storage as you want. Let me remind you that you can buy a 3Tb hard drive for about $140 now.
Which is not something that the typical person, i.e. someone who barely understands the notion of “folders”, can do. I despair at the thought of explaining that some of their data exists on the laptop and some of it on this box over there, let alone how and when to move data between them.
There is no guarantee that there exists some way for them to understand.
Consider the possibility that it’s only possible for people with nontrivial level of understanding to work with 5TB+ amounts of data. It could be a practical boost in capability due to understanding storage technology principles and tools… maybe?
What level of sophistication would you think is un-idiot-proof-able? Nuclear missiles? not-proven-to-be-friendly-AI?