1 yr. ago • 94%

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! 😆

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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.
  
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  Realistically, none of these setups will be used for much more than a good feeling. You can't watch that much media.
  
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Nice try memory card sales person.

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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.

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- A problem, maybe, but a great and awesome problem! One that will last a lifetime.
  
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- 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've found the solution to this problem is to not have friends.
  
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I have the normal human amount

spoiler

about 35 TB

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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.

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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

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

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- I saved this image. Now I have your data.
  
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  Nooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooo (storage limit reached)
  
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- xD
  
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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Probably 2TB, maybe 500gb of which i actually bothered to set up additional backups for (personal photos, docs, projects, and videos)

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

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I've got close to 80TB between 3 locations.

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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.

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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

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About 40 TB

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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.

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- 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.
  
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Permanently Deleted

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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- Homework, you say? Do you mind sharing it? Just wanna double check your work. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
  
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About 30TB all up though 2x 10TB are mirrored backups of each other. I’m due some more soon.

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About 4TB, mostly pictures.

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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.

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