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

[pplpilot]

I'm on my 4th tb drive. 18 years of digital photos + very high res scans of 5x4 negatives/slides going back 25 years. 20k+ mp3 not much video and every single email I've sent and received since 1998 both work and personal and countless Photoshop files, word and excel files. I'm a digital hoarder

 

[Jimidh]

Off topic I know but thanks for reminding me I have to take a data stick to work and transfer all my files before he get new kit next week.

 

[classic33]

15 - 20 Minutes resulted in
169 Mb folder consisting of
172 folders, with 1,362 files.

 

[Crackle]

Those of you into Terabyte territory are probably serious hoarders who need someone to come around and poke through your stuff like on telly.

 

[nickyboy]

Those of you into Terabyte territory are probably serious hoarders who need someone to come around and poke through your stuff like on telly.

Those in Terabyte territory need to consider whether they really should be keeping all those special interest videos

 

[classic33]

Those of you into Terabyte territory are probably serious hoarders who need someone to come around and poke through your stuff like on telly.

How many megabytes in a Terrabyte?

Just so I can work out the space required for more than a day.

 

[Crackle]

How many megabytes in a Terrabyte?

Just so I can work out the space required for more than a day.

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[bruce1530]

Those of you into Terabyte territory are probably serious hoarders who need someone to come around and poke through your stuff like on telly.

Remember the old fashioned floppy disks. Not the older “floppy” ones (5.25 or 8”) - the 3.5” ones in plastic cases.... We used to think they were plenty big - I had a year’s research stored on a box of 10.

How big (physically) is a terabyte compared to that? It’s a stack of those floppy disks about 2km high.

 

[classic33]

Remember the old fashioned floppy disks. Not the older “floppy” ones (5.25 or 8”) - the 3.5” ones in plastic cases.... We used to think they were plenty big - I had a year’s research stored on a box of 10.

How big (physically) is a terabyte compared to that? It’s a stack of those floppy disks about 2km high.

I'm a bit short of the mile.

 

[Drago]

I'm not sure how much I have. 16k perhaps?

 

[bruce1530]

At work, I’ve just signed a purchase order for another 6000 km of storage...

 

[Tin Pot]

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.

Too much baggage - delete it all, live life in the moment.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Remember the old fashioned floppy disks. Not the older “floppy” ones (5.25 or 8”) - the 3.5” ones in plastic cases.... We used to think they were plenty big - I had a year’s research stored on a box of 10.

How big (physically) is a terabyte compared to that? It’s a stack of those floppy disks about 2km high.

I remember a time when I could back up all my data on half a dozen of those, now I couldn't even get my music collection on half a dozen of those.
I recon our computers are like our homes, the longer you keep them the more clutter they collect.

 

[tyred]

I suspect all the stuff we save on our computer is the same as all the physical stuff we store in the attic or the garage. We don't need it and will probably never use it!

When I was getting rid of my first proper computer, I sat for a whole Sunday with a huge box (80 I think) of 3 1/2" floppy disks backing up stuff - all my college projects and other stuff. The computer didn't have a CD drive never mind a CD burner. Those disks are still sitting in a box in my parents attic and I have never once tried to access any of this hugely important data and a) I'm not sure they'd still be readable and b) I no longer own a computer with a drive to read the things anyway!

I tend to upload my digital photos to Flickr and I can download them again any time I want them. I work on the assumption that Yahoo has better backup systems than I have...