I have a Plex media server PC that I run at home where I store movies, TV shows, etc. to watch on TV. It currently has a 1TB m.2 SSD for the OS

I'm getting an Asustor for a similar setup, as I try and figure out how to
sync important data across devices and also not run out of space anywhere.

I'm still trying to mentally figure out how I want the situation to work. I'm not really sure what I envision, but I'm hopeful it includes filling up the drives in that, and not on my laptop or desktop.

a while.. But I can hear someone say sarcastically "18TB ought to be enough for anyone", and I'll probably fill it up eventually.

It feels weird, here, where all our messages and ANSI graphics and whatnot
can generally fairly comfortably fit into a very small place (depending on
what our retention policies and file bases look like I suppose).

And then we mostly have cell phones (or actual dedicated cameras) that can produce some rather high-quality videos that suck up space, even if we don't wind up with too much produced-by-other-people saved video.

And, yeah, I imagine you'll fill that 18TB eventually. I'm thinking that it won't be _all_ that long until having a personal petabyte of storage will
seem at least vaguely reasonable.

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First up, aloe vera, or is that the Adeptus Astartes. :) You've been quiet
for a bit.

I'm getting an Asustor for a similar setup, as I try and figure out how to sync important data across devices and also not run out of space anywhere.

I have a Thecus device filling that role. At the time I bought 2 new 8TB
drives to put in it. I did have a massive amount of monolithic data tied up
in video, unfortunately I lost most of it while playing around with mergerfs
so it lies heavily under utilised.

I'm still trying to mentally figure out how I want the situation to work. I'm not really sure what I envision, but I'm hopeful it includes
filling up the drives in that, and not on my laptop or desktop.

I find I still tend to collect stuff in the downloads folder and all over my desktop. Part of it is images, for the Apple II Hardware data base, but the rest of it is pretty random, odd music, applications. I have to get around
and pack it away into the NAS preiodically.

It feels weird, here, where all our messages and ANSI graphics and whatnot can generally fairly comfortably fit into a very small place (depending on what our retention policies and file bases look like I suppose).

Mine are hanging out of a ~40Mb NFS share... handy to just mount the share in
a virtual system and run it from there.

a while.. But I can hear someone say sarcastically "18TB ought to be enough for anyone", and I'll probably fill it up eventually.

A while back, read a long time ago, "we" had trouble having HD space for all the stuff we were downloading or creating. But somewhere through the Gb
range of hard drives space started to exceed my ability to fill, and I find that is much the case even now. Aforementioned loss of data partially to
blame but I don't acquire data at the same rate I used to.

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First up, aloe vera, or is that the Adeptus Astartes. :) You've been quiet for a bit.

Hi! Yeah, I've still been logging in on a daily basis, but I was getting
behind on FSXnet general sub posts, and was less likely to respond to things
a thousand messages ago.

A bit of the ebb and flow of things, I suppose.

I have been thinking more about demoscene things, though, so I suppose more
of my creative energies are in that direction, at the moment.

I have a Thecus device filling that role. At the time I bought 2 new 8TB drives to put in it. I did have a massive amount of monolithic data
tied up in video, unfortunately I lost most of it while playing around with mergerfs so it lies heavily under utilised.

I've now set mine up, have 2 new 8TB drives that I put into a RAID 1 array
(if I'm not going to use 16 TBs, I may as well have two drives with the same info...).

And, yeah, not sure how much of it I'll use. Probably most will go to
automated backups. For now, I put on half a terabyte of videos, and that's probably the biggest bit I'll do.

base, but the rest of it is pretty random, odd music, applications. I
have to get around and pack it away into the NAS preiodically.

Yeah, and I should probably do that, too. My downloads folder is fairly massive, and most of it I probably don't need to have multiple copies of, so just keeping it all on the NAS is probably the best idea.

Mine are hanging out of a ~40Mb NFS share... handy to just mount the
share in a virtual system and run it from there.

I think my Mystic install is significantly bigger than that, but I'm not deleting messages, and I imagine the file base keeps getting bigger.

Now all the ANSIs I've ever made... Yeah, that's probably still pretty tiny.

the Gb range of hard drives space started to exceed my ability to fill, and I find that is much the case even now. Aforementioned loss of data partially to blame but I don't acquire data at the same rate I used to.

I think the whole, "Well, video comes through streaming, not downloading"
meant that people no longer are really collecting things that take up lots of space.

I imagine I'll eventually use up the space I have, even if just for backups, but filling will probably depend on how much time I spend with DaVinci
Resolve.

GIMP, coding, and BBSing just aren't enough.

But I guess I'm basically happy with this state of things -- like how
processor speed has basically plateaued since the early 2000s, so, yeah,
sure, lots more cores, graphics cards stuff, and general parallel processing, but top speed basically stopped getting higher.

And the need for hard drive space is just less.

Unless you have lots of 4k video, I imagine.

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