And why was it only after you realized your Golden Girls directory ballooned past 200GB?

    • metaStatic
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      this is the only true answer.

      like making backups only when the disk starts clicking.

      • Handles
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        I’m waiting for the disk to stop clicking before I back it up. Any day now!

        • @LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.orgOP
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          27 hours ago

          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.

          • Handles
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            623 hours ago

            You read my mind! Now help me read this dead mechanical drive, would you?

  • @tobogganablaze@lemmus.org
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    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 …

  • @spencer@lemmy.ca
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    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…

  • @Bronzie@sh.itjust.works
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    71 day ago

    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

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    61 day ago

    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

  • @jawa21
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    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.

  • Zier
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    When the majority of my files were 80’s Synth-pop & Pron!!!

  • candyman337
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    When my home server crashed itself from lack of storage lol, I like to keep a 2 to 6tb buffer these days