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 Imagine this but for a 32 Terabyte RAID.

https://stereophonic.space/media/dfdf09ad2f0d0d137fca5a2c5955fff064fecab805b396df62c3d81a575dcc76.png 
 Also just FYI. Ext4 filesystem stores directory structure as a linked list, so search and access time increases linearly with the number of nodes in a directory. The best way to kill performance is to create 100000 subdirectories lmao.

Which is to say, Ext4 sucks immensely.