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Not really. Global hard drive production is more than 2^64 bytes or 18 exabytes (SI).

https://www.anandtech.com/show/10098/market-views-2015-hard-...



From that it looks like production is 130 exabytes for Seagate and Western Digital combined. Using the default block size on ZFS the limit is 128 * 1024 * 2^64 = 2 zettabytes. Even allowing for other manufacturers it's an order of magnitude more than global annual production.




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