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Who said that 2 TB would be enough!!??
J_K_M_A_N:
I remember when I got my 10 meg MFM hard drive. That's right, MEG. I thought I was set for life. Of course that was back on the IBM XT with green screen and DOS. Now I have about 3 TB of space and I am not full yet but I had to add 1TB recently to get to 3. I will agree with patrickl and crashwg, I could delete about 300-400 gigs easy and be fine with that but, I like to keep it all. I don't think I will add any more space to my setup though. If I get to that point, I will delete some stuff.
We do rewatch many TV shows and movies though. I have about 250+ movies we haven't seen yet but we still rewatch others instead. :)
J_K_M_A_N
Haterot:
I am approaching about 40% filled of a 2.9TB. I have 4 1TB drives in Raid5 running on FreeNAS, which all the systems in the house can access. When I do fill those up I'll just replace the case it's in, get another raid card and add 4 more drives, probably 2TB drive by that time.
Can NEVER have enough storage.
SavannahLion:
Sometimes it's just a chore to purge the drives. No matter how well organized I make a drive, there are still files that get buried so deep I would completely forget about them. I'm working on a HDD now and I found archival files from some of my old websites that I've completely forgot I created them. It was weird looking through old school papers, source code, databases, etc. I even found old videos like Troops, Star Wars Kid, and Jack Schitt before they were ruined and bastardized by crap like YouTube.
At some point, there's such an accumulation of data that a purge just doesn't seem worthwhile anymore. Much easier to buy a larger drive and keep going.
patrickl:
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on September 05, 2009, 04:26:21 pm ---At some point, there's such an accumulation of data that a purge just doesn't seem worthwhile anymore. Much easier to buy a larger drive and keep going.
--- End quote ---
You can use something like SequoiaView or WindirStat.
If it's old there is not much use purging it anyway. Old files tend to be small enough. Its the multiple GB files for DVD ISO's and BlueRay movies that fill a disk up fast.
Epyx:
Most tv shows and movies never get watched again...the problem is that there are some series I will watch over and over again...Dr. Who (30 seasons worth), Star Trek seasons (32 seasons worth), Stargate/Atlantis (16 seasons)...those alone are nearly a terrabyte...then there are the games...
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