TBW is a measure of performance/resiliency for drives being written to very frequently.
You use the word “backup” which implies infrequent writing. “Redundancy” is what we call duplication of data that is copied very frequently. Very different application. So how frequent are you making these copies?
In the 20TB range, a few offline HDD are by FAR the most economical backup solution, even in triplicate. As far as reliability, the MTBF of an offline HDD stored properly is vastly greater than the upgrade cycle. Even less of a concern with triplicated backups.
TBW is a measure of performance/resiliency for drives being written to very frequently.
You use the word “backup” which implies infrequent writing. “Redundancy” is what we call duplication of data that is copied very frequently. Very different application. So how frequent are you making these copies?
In the 20TB range, a few offline HDD are by FAR the most economical backup solution, even in triplicate. As far as reliability, the MTBF of an offline HDD stored properly is vastly greater than the upgrade cycle. Even less of a concern with triplicated backups.