Total drive space is probably something like 40 to 50 TB.
Around three quarters of that is in use, mostly my Plex libraries: film, TV, music, spoken word.
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Damn, y'all have so much stuff. I kinda put my faith in the internet and hoped that civilization doesn't collapse and torrent stuff whenever I want to watch them.
Realistically, none of these setups will be used for much more than a good feeling. You can't watch that much media.
Given that a movie can be between 1GB and 50GB depending on source and compression used, you can't know that. You can find game of thrones downloads that are 30GB per episode. At 1080. If you go for high quality with a nzb setup, it fills up really fast.
Also my setup is used by multiple people and that's probably fairly common. So maybe "I" can't watch that much, but "we" can.
And who does that? I mean, that's just a huge cost for what? Slightly sharper nipples on screen?
How often do you think, you'll watch, say GoT? Twice? Why bother building half a data center in your house for the off chance that you might, at some point, maybe want to consider to watch that one movie again?
It's a hobby, I get that. But arguing that it's useful is like saying you're restoring that 50s car in your garage for driving to work or grocery shopping. We all know, that's not the reason.
Some people just want lossless media.
And saying it's a huge cost... 60TB in a raid 5 setup will cost you less than $2k. That's really not much for most US households. Especially when that setup lasts for years.
Nice try memory card sales person.
50 TB on a network attached storage appliance across 8 drives, probably 200-400 GB across two laptop internal drives, and 500 GB or so of games on a Framework expansion card.
I may have a problem. Something something r/datahoarder something something.
I crossed the 110TB line not too long ago. Don't worry, if all of your primary data is still in one enclosure you're still fine.
If you find yourself building out racks then it's time for an intervention. That's what my friends did with me and they failed
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I have the normal human amount
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about 35 TB
Eh, only around 60TB or so of media. Definitely not as much as some people over on DataHoarders, but plenty more than then vast majority of people.
Probably like 3 TB. I archive stuff sometimes to protect against service disruptions of all severity, but I don't game much or have an extensive movie collection.
Phone only
40 Gb of apps
160 gb of music. Would be a lot higher if my music didn't have 128kbps as quality
2.2 Gb of images
4.5 GB of videos
On my desktop PC I have 2tb of SSD and 16tb of hard disk. I use the ssds for games and OS, while the hdds get used for movies, tv shows, music, etc.
I am actively seeding 4.5tb of data on private trackers.
I saved this image. Now I have your data.
Nooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooo (storage limit reached)
xD
8tb worth of media with 3 replicas
My PC alone has about 8-10tb of unreplicated data
All in I have a raw capacity of about 160tb
That is a decent collection of pornography
I don't really keep any porn saved since everything is just accessible online.
Mostly keep movies, tv, and anime but have started to also keep some ebooks and music as of lately.
I'm also a data hoarder so I just keep most stuff forever unless it's a torrent or installer
I really try to go through my stuff and delete things I no longer need - more usually documents rather than media... I always worry I might remove something I realise I need later! So you are probably more sensible!
I also have like 200-300gb of Linux and Windows ISOs for archival reasons. There have been several times where I've had to load an older OS that had proper Ethernet drivers and upgrade.
It's super dedicated, when something isn't working people like you are why we have the things we need archived!
I have a huge collection of TTRPG material, and mirrored back ups of media but nothing that exciting.
About 3-4TB, most of it on a RAID storage array. Though I'm making a lot of YouTube videos now and I don't want to delete any of the footage so it's growing quickly.
That's how I started out too. You pick a few things here and there, next thing you know a few years later you build a server capable of storing half a petabyte of data. The important thing is to know when it starts becoming a problem. I am at 216 tb now, but I should be good for years to come.
About 60TB of media mostly for plex. Then a lot of personal photos. My music library is about 200GB of mostly FLAC.
I have ~4TB of data, a mix of media, backups of various phones, computers, etc, and pictures and video. Pictures take up more space than you might think for a modern MILC - If you do RAW + JPEG, that's ~65MB per image. Plus copies that are edited / cropped and exported to jpeg. Video is even worse. I use a 128GB card in my camera, and that's on the smaller side if you were going to do video.
I lost about 4TB when my RAID died without backups, but that was mainly media that isn't that important. Some pictures and such. The problem is it's easy to do large RAID devices, it's hard to back them up. My upload is only 10Mbit so initial upload to a cloud service of 4TB I think took 3 months or so, because the backup software would hang, and just upload times. I don't think it's actually realistic for me if my actual data grows much more. I might have to go back to standalone spinning disk drives to be backups for cost effective and fast enough.
My current NAS has 22TB usable, and when I cross 5TB I'm not entirely sure if it'll work to the cloud anymore.
I just ordered an additional 12TB drive for my NAS because the 12TB of usable space I currently have on it is nearly full. Plus all of that data has multiple backups - I consider 3-2-1 to be a minimal backup strategy.
OP, you may want to venture over to !datahoarder@lemmy.ml
I've got close to 80TB between 3 locations.
Honestly, a few megs for telephone numbers and calendar entries would be enough.
I do have music, movies, games and chat backups, but realistically if they vanished tomorrow I wouldn't mind too much.
Probably 2TB, maybe 500gb of which i actually bothered to set up additional backups for (personal photos, docs, projects, and videos)
I have about 3-4 TB (maybe 5 if some old drives still work)
About 40 TB
About 32TB used out of 40TB usable on my NAS and a couple of TB spread across devices.
Mostly media and storage for my selfhosted services.
I have about 140TB of stuff and ever growing. I have a second server that I back everything up to off site, so if you count the duplicate data, it's 280 TB.
How is everyone here indexing and cataloguing 10s of TBs of data???
I have like <8 TB combined probably if you count everything I have on my PC/laptop/cloud storage and I often can't find shit and a bunch of those are full disk compressed backups that I can't even search directly without opening it in a specialized program.
How is everyone here indexing and cataloguing 10s of TBs of data???
I record music at home and sometimes also shoot videos for it sometimes. You'd be surprised how much storage you'd fill even just in your first year.
About 30TB all up though 2x 10TB are mirrored backups of each other. Iโm due some more soon.
I have a couple of unused former daily driver devices which also have storage, but for the ones I currently use probably ~1 TB
About 4TB, mostly pictures.
I used to hoard data, feeling amateur though only like 4 tb, I stopped doing it once all the streaming platforms came online like 5 plus years ago. My plex media server is technically broken right now.
41 GB of photos, 1TB of music, 3TB of movies and TV, 30 GB of email and docs.
I could probably clean up some of these photos, emails and docs to half of what it is.
Eh, only around 60TB or so of media. Definitely not as much as some people over on DataHoarders, but plenty more than then vast majority of people.
Damn, about 3 TB
I have a NAS with about 40TB of available space and I keep putting stuff on it.
Most of that is 3D models and pictures.
In my phone I have 10GB for apps (tho it might be lees since i'm using a Pixel based ROM) 7GB for videos, 4GB for images and 9GB of "Homework". In my PC i have a 1TB hard drive for custom ROMs and 240GB SSD for the system.
Homework, you say? Do you mind sharing it? Just wanna double check your work. ( อกยฐ อส อกยฐ)
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