Time To Do Some Serious Cleaning.

I just saw for the first time today as I was browsing the local electronics store the insane Hard Drive prices. I then immediately thought to myself, I need to seriously do some digital cleaning. I have over 10TB of data floating around various Hard Drives and haven't even seen some of the stuff on them in many months. I always just took for granted that I could just buy another 2TB Hard Drive for 70€ and keep on collecting and consuming. Since the budget is really tight now and the prices are insane with no signs of any letting up, I don't think I'll be buying a Hard Drive for quite some time. Any thoughts on this from the fellow TechExams members? Any changes to your digital hoarding habits?

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SouthSeaPirate

I know I dont really have a space issue, its more of being completely disorganized. I know all my movies and TV shows are totally filling up my HTPC drives, but ironically, its the only 100% organized drive I have. I think a lot of people are quite the same way. Usually no reason to delete anything with all that space available.

alxx

No change to hoarding habits as I have a habit of keeping a few spare hard drives.

Other thing is some of the cloud storage prices aren't to far off hard drive prices.

Or use a web hosting account like dreamhost's unlimited account for a backup
(look for the special every so often where you can get your first year for US$9.99)

Priston

I have 2 internal hard drives, 640GB and 80GB. I only have 150GB of data. I also have a 1TB external drive for backup, I guess it has around 100GB used.

I buy hard copies of all the movies I own, so I guess that helps.

djfunz

One day it's gonna catch up to me that I didn't upload some of my data to the cloud. I have over 100GB just in pictures from Europe! Movies, games and music on the other hand, is one of those things where I enjoy them when their there, but I don't know if I'd miss them if they were gone. So, hence the time to reflect and see how much I really "need".

tpatt100

I am kind of disorganized also. My wife's Mac is setup to sync pictures with iCloud so that helps and I also have her Time Machine external USB setup. I keep procastinating looking for an external picture hosting site. I do sync my My Documents folder to an external USB drive though.

thall860

Right now I have enough left over in the WHS box to last me a while, but I was really hoping to get another 2TB around black Friday. But now that they have more than doubled in price there goes that idea.