IT worker bailed after allegedly stealing 31 snowball devices worth $600,000

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80TB in one device. Nice. And here I had to go back and forth with a backup company years ago when I wanted to seed a backup that was over 2TB. They didn't have drives larger than that, that they would send to consumers... (eventually they did).

Looks like it's just a RAID-in-a-box, not entirely unlike, say, an 8-bay NAS populated with 10TB drives, rather than truly a single device.

Considering how expensive something from Synology is, I wonder if there's a market for this kind of hardware, a no-frills high-bandwidth NAS and/or DAS to be used for off-network bulk data transfer.

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