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Awesome can't wait til they're cheap so I can replace my many hard drives with just one much larger one.
Make sure you buy two of them so you've got a backup. I'm uncomfortable storing 16TB worth of data on one drive, no way am I putting 32TB of anything I give a shit about onto one drive.
If you have 20TB of data to store, a single drive is safer than splitting it across multiple drives. Few point of failure in total.
This single point of failure equals to putting all of your eggs in the same basket.
Which is why you have backups. Doesn't matter if you have 1 32TB drive or 32 1TB drives, backups are how you recover from failure. Running 1 drive is less risk than running 2 drives for the same storage capacity.