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		lostmsu 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Just use Postgres With an SSD cache + a few external 20TB hard drives I think you can easily make it to 40TB with redundancy.

orf 11 months ago [–]

Yes, you obviously can fit 10 TB of data onto a developer laptop with 10tb of external storage. However you’ll run out of disk before you run into Postgres issues.

lostmsu 11 months ago | [–]

I was kinda agreeing with you :-D

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