How much storage do you have in the NAS? What do you use it for?
I've always wanted to know how people use over 2TB. I can barely even use my 160GB, so I am genuinely curious. Thank you.
Around 2TB. I can't recall exactly, as it got put together with mostly spare parts and just runs. But 160GB? That can't even fit the most important thing the server is for: music. At 350-400MB per album, the GBs increment quickly, though growth is somewhat slow.
44.1kHz/16b stereo takes an average of just under 370MB/disc, for me.I think High Definition Audio would certainly have that size or increment.
I keep an image of every computer system I build. This makes restoration very easy. My fileserver is shutdown most of the time.
How much storage do you have in the NAS? What do you use it for?
I've always wanted to know how people use over 2TB. I can barely even use my 160GB, so I am genuinely curious. Thank you.
For data hoarders, this is a touchy subject. I think they have meetings about the cloud deficit anxiety.
I'd never hear the term "data hoarder", but it fits. Instead of throwing even more storage, and larger and larger drives, into my file server, I made a goal recently of deleting 20GB a day. As I said above, most of my stuff is replaceable, so doesn't matter much in either case.
I mean, am I _really_ going to want to rewatch 'Meet the Robinsons' in the foreseeable future? Do I _really_ need every single episode of 'Greatest American Hero'. Damnit. I just can't bring myself to delete 'Greatest American Hero'. I need help.
Some data is much more valuable than other data, and that will vary quite a bit from user to user. If you can't replace something, you'd be foolish not to back it up and do everything in your power (within reason) not to preserve it.
There are number of things that go into making some data valuable. Off the top of my head:
1. It can't be replaced. Photos, home videos, email correspondence.
2. Something you paid for it and may not be able to download again.
3. Something that has a lot of work invested in creating it.
The last one is the reason I value my music collection so much. Although it's replaceable - I can just re-rip the CDs - I have many hundreds of man-hours invested in properly tagging the files and downloading (and often editing) album artwork. It would take me several years to recreate the library from scratch.