What a difference ten years makes..
http://www.sheer.us/weblogs/?p=1727.
2 terabytes was actually a impressive amount of disk. Now I routinely slam 2T SSDs in things, and one system I work with regularly has a RAID array of PCIe 2T SSDs capable of 2+G/s read and write. I’ve recorded more than 2T worth of multitrack content. And so forth.