• spez@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Only ever use 25% of my already small nvme lol, I am at the other end of the bell curve I guess

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    5 days ago

    Try being a graphic designer or video editor. I’ve stopped running out of disk space and started running out of SATA slots on the mobo.

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      5 days ago

      Get a NAS, you should be using one any way, It makes switching computers extremely easy, you don’t have to bother transferring hundreds of TB just install the apps you use and your good to go.

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      5 days ago

      Got space for a PCIe 8x card? Get a lsi2308 and a set of SAS to SATA cables. 8 drives off that bad boy, and actually reliable unlike every single PCI or PCIe SATA card I’ve ever tried.

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    6 days ago

    I have just bought 8TB drive, but thus time I am using it ONLY to backup and store stale data, so far 1TB cleanes from my main SSDs. Wish me luck.

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        6 days ago

        You can get a cheap QNAP 4 bay with 4x 12-18tb refurbished enterprise drives for a 36-54tb RAID5 for like sub $800 (as low as $600) tbh. Don’t know if you have the budget for that but the speed will be faster and you’ll be solidly protected from data loss on the unit.

        You could even do a 2 bay with like 2x 24tb for a combined 48tb or backed up 24tb for idk $400?

  • irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    I was once wondering where 80gb of my storage went when I was reinstalling a game, and I eventually found out it was because I forgot to delete the .rar archive after I extracted it.

    Small stuff (arguably) like that always fills my disks until it becomes a problem.

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    5 days ago

    That’s how I got a free netbook. It had 32GB and could not be expanded. 27GB on it was wasted on windows and office. And then it needed to download an 8GB update.

    Owner had to buy a new one, I got the old one for free. It now has 26GB free, with Linux, libreoffice, and developer tools already installed.

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      5 days ago

      I am still trying to figure out what is going since Win 7, and it takes so much space (I don’t know about Vista)