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Restoring backups on a 32TB drive would also take a very long time! Other comments have mentioned that it would probably take more than 13 hours to fill the drive.

On a related note, remirroring or rebuilding a 32TB RAID drive would probably take days.

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Backup to cloud provider, and then have them ship you a replacement drive with the data preloaded when your local drive goes bad (Backblaze, for example, does this).

Local drives are more fast cache for data that should be stored reliably elsewhere (maybe hot, maybe cold, depending on provider and cost concerns).

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