> But just 50TB of data? Duplicating that would have been cheap and trivial.

Seriously. I'm just a random nerd and I have a home server with 96TB of raw disk space divided in to two RAIDZ1 pools which cost me around $2500 to build five years ago and has required basically zero maintenance since then.

Hard drive prices are absolutely bonkers right now but even with that in mind if I were to build a modern version of this same machine I could do it for under $10k using brand new hardware and it'd have double the storage