And why was it only after you realized your Golden Girls directory ballooned past 200GB?
When I ran out of storage space.
this is the only true answer.
like making backups only when the disk starts clicking.
I’m waiting for the disk to stop clicking before I back it up. Any day now!
it’s fine, raid0 is a backup right?
You read my mind! Now help me read this dead mechanical drive, would you?
Just last week I did a drive clone for somebody who’s disk reported a total runtime of over 9 years. The SMART stats only reported one pending sector and long spin up time but it was making noises that said otherwise.
The clone completed with only three I/O errors.
See, I’ll be fine.
I got one a few months old that was clicking like something from The Last of Us.
I swear SMART data is the most useless shit.
I usually expand when I reach 80% capacity.
And why was it only after you realized your Golden Girls directory ballooned past 200GB?
Did you find the show in 1080p somewhere? But yeah, I only have 480p and it still takes 70GB.
Let’s not talk about the 1.1TB Simpsons folder …
You could easily trim that Simpsons directory down by over 75% by only keeping the good seasons
That is NOT the spirit!
Stripping out the audio tracks for languages I don’t speak reduces the file size a little.
I’m not a hoarder by any means, but my external 2TB drive is finally getting full. I just recently learned just how cheap storage is on a laptop with the 2.5" bays. I’m likely gong to use the new 4TB drive for general storage, then wipe the 2TB drive and move all of my content there.
When I migrated the Jellyfin server to a NUC instead of the NAS. Now I can get whatever quality I like and just transcode on the fly when necessary. Also picked up some surveillance cameras that I expect will require some storage space.
14 TB soon full. Considering getting two more drives
When I decided to host my own personal Plex server. Now I can finally say I have a big D:/
And yes it is nothing but mixed media.
The year was 2006, and the 80 GB HDD in my Dell Optiplex 790 was full of podcasts, stolen music, and episodes of Dr. Who…
Why did you download podcasts?
To listen to…
Yeah it was 2006 and that was how you got the MP3 files onto your iPod Nano. This was back when “mobile internet” consisted of “m.website.com” links that loaded a page without a style sheet at dial-up speeds that was designed to be navigated with a D-pad.
Sure, but you did you download them, listen to them and then delete them, or did you keep them around for archival purposes? Because it’s rather untypical to re-listen to a podcast episode many times, which you might do with music.
When the hard drive got full. Luckily, hard drives keep getting bigger and bigger.
When I booted up my PC with a 1tb ssd and installed like 5 large games. It took up a majority of my space. So I got a couple of cheap HDD and a 2tb ssd as well. Worth it. Now I have like 100 games downloaded
4k video
My condolances.
When I ran out and there was nothing I wanted to delete
When my home server crashed itself from lack of storage lol, I like to keep a 2 to 6tb buffer these days
When I finally got a seedbox and started downloading massive amounts of movies, TV shows, games and music (first to the seedbox, then archived everything on my home NAS, deleted everything with lots of seeders from the seedbox to save space, and now I only use it for either new stuff I want to download, or seeding content with very few or no seeders)
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When the majority of my files were 80’s Synth-pop & Pron!!!
I start collecting new drives for expansion when I reach 80%-100% capacity of the current RAID drive. Currently reaching that point, nearing 60TB.
