I agree that the average home user does not need 20TB for themselves but that's likely not the market they are looking to target. Most companies need backup and data storage. The average company should have Primary storage, backup storage +history copies, and off site copies. If the average user generates 50gb of data and you have a company of 500 people you are now needing at least 24tb in 3 different places..... Add in graphics or CAD users into this mix and storage grows fast, a medium sized company can have over 1 petabyte of storage very quickly. 20TB drives would really shrink the physical size of large storage arrays.

What's wrong with asking the person what's wrong and determining priority based on situation not how much the person freaks out. I have known people to get stressed out and screaming about scratch, while other people like a faller I knew called on the cb radio calm as can be that he hates to bug people but could someone drive him to the hospital he just had the chainsaw go though half his leg and he can't hit the gas pedal to drive himself.

anyone wonder if that site is checking our browser history while we read the article? Slashdot.org will be the most popular site according to statistics by the end of the day.

unless the patch breaks something which you should test in a test lab you should apply most patches, and half of the releases that explain what it fixes explain how to take advantage of any computers that don't use this patch, if it's a serious threat then it might be better to let people protect themselves before you tell the hackers how to use that exploit.