Data as in information (photos, contacts, messages, etc…), not your mobile internet allowance.
I personally just have photos and a few phone numbers that I can remember, probably around 10-15 GB including a few 4K videos. I have like maybe 20 GB of apps but they are re-downloadable so it doesn’t really count for me. As for PC, I rarely use computers these days, too tired and I’d rather lie down and stare at my phone instead, so I’m not even gonna count my PC data. How much data do you have and whats your total combined storage of all your drives?
Edit: Damn, some people got so much stuff! I personally am relying on faith that the internet and civilization doesn’t collapse so I download stuff whenever I want to watch them and delete them when I’m done with them. Y’all got doomsday bunkers planned out! 😆
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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.
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 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.
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.
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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.
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 videosProbably 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.
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.
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.
I have the normal human amount
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about 35 TB
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
I’ve found the solution to this problem is to not have friends.
Aren’t several selfhosted chatbots friends?
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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.
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
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.
Total combined storage if I don’t count offline backup drives is a bit more than 25TB, though I got another 8TB SSD today so that’ll be going up soon.
I would say about half of that storage is filled with a number of different archives, lots of video, music, and game stuff just lying around. I also do not like to delete anything ever if I can avoid it. Basically just a hoarder, but I prefer to call it archival lol. I actually do maintain a ~1.4TB or so archive of content for 20 years of stuff from a rhythm game called Stepmania.
