I really feel that these sort of disks are starting to be seriously limited.. (Score: 1) by insulatedkiwi@pipedot.org on 2014-02-18 14:10 (#25) Even with SATA and SAS 6G connectivity, you're still looking at a lot of time for file system verification, backups, even just using dd. I think they're fine for general usage, but the size of them is making a lot of the things I suggested earlier pretty time prohibitive..