How much personal data have you collected in your digital life?

[Crackle]

As I was transferring all my data to a new disk, after the great NAS disaster of 2017, I discovered I had amassed just under 200Gb of personal digital data. Most is photos and videos, as you'd expect but there's also 10Gb of music, hundreds of Word and Excel files and still a bunch of assorted downloads which I need to go through and prune. I dread to think how many 1's and 0's represent my digital life.

 

[Andrew_P]

I am a digital hoarder - email folder approaching 30.5gb going back to 2004, business and personal. Dropbox just over a terabyte business and personal.

 

[welsh dragon]

Very little for me. Books that i have downloaded, music the same, no files, no personal info, no documents. Apart from the info that everyone gives out to be able to use the internet, nothing at all. My laptop could crash and burn tomorrow, and i wouldn't lose anything important or meaningful to me.

 

[Andrew_P]

Very little for me. Books that i have downloaded, music the same, no files, no personal info, no documents. Apart from the info that everyone gives out to be able to use the internet, nothing at all. My laptop could crash and burn tomorrow, and i wouldn't lose anything important or meaningful to me.

Nor would I - being a paranoid hoarder it is stored on my Laptop - My PC - My Work PC and Online storage dropbox for files and Exchange server for email. It takes me about an hour to get a new machine identical. Where ever I go my machines are identical and update each other and online. I guess I am a digital, OCD hoarder! But it is remarkable how useful it can be.

 

[Welsh wheels]

Too much. If my laptop dies, I lose literally my whole life.

 

[Markymark]

I have started picking out one or two images from special happenings such as holidays, rides, or days out with friends, and getting them printed out to put in an album. I figure that one way or another I'll be glad I've got them to look at when I get really old and decrepit.

We do this. Every year we go through our photos and make a photobook of that year. We also do one of the kids for the grandparents as presents. It's nice to go through them.

 

[swee'pea99]

I once showed my Dad one of these and said "All the work I've ever done could be comfortably accommodated on this":

He gawped. As you might.

Other than that, I have shedloads of movies, music and pics - certainly hundreds of gb. No idea how much all told, nor how much of it I will ever see or hear. 10%?

 

[I like Skol]

I once showed my Dad one of these and said "All the work I've ever done could be comfortably accommodated on this":

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He gawped. As you might.

Other than that, I have shedloads of movies, music and pics - certainly hundreds of gb. No idea how much all told, nor how much of it I will ever see or hear. 10%?

That's a bit chunky and for such small capacity!

I have a 16gb one of these stuck in the front of my car radio so it barely protrudes. Available in 64gb form

 

[swee'pea99]

That's a bit chunky and for such small capacity!

I have a 16gb one of these stuck in the front of my car radio so it barely protrudes. Available in 64gb form
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Me too, funnily enough. Tho' I only have about 2gb on it, because the Sony player I have has a staggeringly useless randomising algorithm, and seems only to scan the first 0.3gb or something, regardless of how much stuff's on the stick. (Googling reveals many, many grumbles about this. It's strange, because I also have several Sony MP3 players, and they all randomise really well. Why they didn't put a tweaked version of the same software on the car unit is a mystery to me.)

 

[I like Skol]

I have never got on with Sony head units, they just don't seem very user friendly. I always default to Pioneer whenever I am choosing. The current item is a mechless DAB unit which is more than sufficient for my needs. It was a big step to go for something without a CD player, kind of like fitting a bathroom without a bath, but I have never regretted it and don't look back o the old days of having piles of CDs ratting around in the centre console and glovebox.

 

[MrPie]

20 odd years of work stuff - in excess of 50Gb. Wot can I say.....I’m a prolific crap generator. 70Gb+ of music, but DrPie has subscribed the family to the Apple streaming wotsit for the last couple of years, so no longer properly download music to store on a hard drive. Photos & video (home stuff) 220Gb. I write and record music too - 100Gb. I may slot into the ‘digital hoarder’ category too.

 

[slowmotion]

I have half a dozen 16GB memory sticks that are back ups of My Documents and Pictures made at different times over the last ten years. There is much duplication. Two my computers died earlier in the year and I started with a completely empty laptop. There is virtually nothing that I've reinstated from the back ups. There is surprisingly little that's important in my digital life.

 

[mjr]

Too much. If my laptop dies, I lose literally my whole life.

Backup, backup, backup!

I have a 16gb one of these stuck in the front of my car radio so it barely protrudes. Available in 64gb form
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Almost as easy to lose as MicroSD cards

 

[Deleted member 23692]

2.21TB according to my 12TB NAS.

 

[I like Skol]

Almost as easy to lose as MicroSD cards

It stays in one place unless I want to add music files to it.