SpidersWeb wrote:haha good work
I'm not quite at 10, but at 8TB total for storage. I think my actual data usage is probably around 3TB. But that data all gets stored twice.
Yeah, that's the idea, I'm going RAID and mirroring everything. I'm going to get ALL my redundant and non-redundant backups & archives from their scattered haphazard collection of external drives, make ONE MASTER file structure that holds everything, mirror it, and breath a big sigh of relief. I probably have close to 5TB of data to my name already, but a lot of it is dupes because I've literally never had a sensible archiving system before.
10TB is such an utterly absurd amount of data, it helps to have some comparisons:
- the first computer I bought with my own money, a lovely 486/25 at age 12, had a 100MB HDD. This is
100 000 times that.
- there are ROUGHLY (probably less than...) 30 000 commercial software titles for the C64. Assuming the average title used both sides of a flippy disk (probably not true - and cassettes held even less!) I could store more than 1000 copies of the entire C64 library.
- if I launched Audacity, set it to save directly to low-bitrate MP3 (128 kb/s), and hit "record", I could capture audio on this setup for
twenty years before I ran out of disk space. If I were recording 360p streaming video, it would take 1300 days.