It's Amazing How Much Stuff The NAS Holds

[bear0214]

I am getting reday to sell one of my Synoligies. (220+) to make space for a new RS822+

I have been going through tons of stuff I've stored over ~15+ years... some of it I haven't looked at since then!

Damn, I must of deleted at least a TB of crap I never used... and it was some time and effort sorting through all the stuff.

Glad that's done!

 

[Pauljw]

Heresy!! What is this 'delete' of which you speak? It is amazing what we accumulate over time. Good luck with the new system.

 

[fredbert]

In general newer stuff is bigger than older, due to processing and storage becoming cheaper over time. I’ve lots of old stuff squirrelled away that’s mostly never going to be used* but vs my media libraries that old stuff is tiny.

Not sure why I keep this stuff. Maybe it’s to bunk out the target for data rot, cannon fodder if you like. But I know it doesn’t work like that so I think it’s because, fundamentally, I’m lazy.

*such as installers and archives for old Macs and Palm OS devices i have in the loft. Great at the time but am I really going to ever use them again? Nope!

 

[Pauljw]

My system is used primarily for media. We prefer classic stuff so I've ripped a lot of box sets, first to two separate sets of disks on two kodi systems, but since about a year ago, I moved everything to a NAS. Much nicer. Most of it is rather permanent though as we love watching reruns.