How much "data" do you personally have?

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! 😆

GreyShack,

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.

001100010010,
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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.

agressivelyPassive,

Realistically, none of these setups will be used for much more than a good feeling. You can’t watch that much media.

ParkingPsychology,

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.

agressivelyPassive,

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.

ParkingPsychology,

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.

scottmeme,

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

trouser_mouse,
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That is a decent collection of pornography

scottmeme,

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

trouser_mouse,
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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!

scottmeme,

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.

trouser_mouse,
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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.

trouser_mouse,
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https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7e9b90cb-cfe6-42ab-8412-a69c43343393.jpeg

001100010010,
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xD

Kissaki,

I saved this image. Now I have your data.

trouser_mouse,
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Nooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooo (storage limit reached)

Bread,

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.

zerbey,

About 4TB, mostly pictures.

Dr_Wu,

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.

confetti_8tVST5,

Based off of my backups only 700 gigs. Double that if you count the backup drive for the backup drive

cccc,

About 30TB all up though 2x 10TB are mirrored backups of each other. I’m due some more soon.

Anti_Weeb_Penguin,
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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.

001100010010,
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Homework, you say? Do you mind sharing it? Just wanna double check your work. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

ilovecheese,
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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.

yonerboner,

About 60TB of media mostly for plex. Then a lot of personal photos. My music library is about 200GB of mostly FLAC.

Aatube, (edited )
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I have a couple of unused former daily driver devices which also have storage, but for the ones I currently use probably ~1 TB

hoodlem,

About 40 TB

jmp242,

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.

ShadowAether,

I have about 3-4 TB (maybe 5 if some old drives still work)

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