Should I split a big (8TB) backup disk into more than one partition, or not?

[Charles M]

> Modern disks have ludicrously low BERs (yay!)- but ludicrously high
> storage capacities (uh-oh).

Good to know about storage capacities. Given that I'll probably stick
to 8TB or less.

> > I filled my 8TB in 7 months and I'm glad I didn't partition it
> > further. I compressed the data and saved a tonne of space.
> Apropos compression, a bit error on a compressed or encrypted disk or
> file is generally a much bigger deal, because it can render all the
> data on the disk or in the file unreadable.

In this case I wasn't compressing the disk, but using handbrake-cli to
compress the individual files, which could sometimes be 40GB or more
each file. I used the 1080p preset, which looks decent on my 1080p
display.

> So use error correction (like RAID) or have backups. Multiple backups.

And this is the reason why I was hoping larger drives would push the
price of the 8TB drives down a bit, it would be nice to  be able to
stick 4 x 8TB drives in a RAID (5/10) array.

One thing I found with RAID was NOT to do RAID10 if you plan on adding
drives later and don't want to back up the data elsewhere then
restore, at least not with certain controllers (9260-8i I'm looking at
you).