jeez 3TB drives just jumped from $180 to $260 on Amazon.
That's okay- I still fear their reliability. And the statistics are not good.
But, oh how I pine for the capacity! But if you are good about multiple copies *AND* don't have simultaneous failures from the same lot, then it isn't such a concern. But for those of us who lived the IBM "death star" drives, and them all basically being bad, multiple simultaneous failures are a real consideration. And these drives are far more complex, in many significant ways.... If those old drives were like "a 747 flying inches above the runway without ever touching", these drives are like "a thousand 747's, with their wings all connected, flying fractions of an inch above little cesna airplanes, which are flying fractions of an inch above the runway, in the dark"...