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Can you explain what those extensions are? There was always .wav but I don't recognize any of those...
File formats for trackers; music sequencer programs. The files are very small because they just describe the beats/notes. Think MIDI files. They were stupid easy to trade over IRC on dial-up because they were so small.
250 min hd was a lot once
Then the 1 GB hds.
Storage will go in lockstep with video quality online and on device.
What’s a reasonable amount of storage for 8k video?
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Yes, usually shooting for a client: https://serio.com.au/projects/ I should probably just add a 10% line item for drives and archiving. But also a good amount is speculative - shoot a location and then try to sell the content to various parties. Sometimes sell stuff a year or more after shooting it. Keeping one copy isn’t onerous or expensive, but the mental baggage of shuffling around multiple copies gets a bit much…
> Yes, usually shooting for a client I don't think this "I [...] cannot comprehend downsizing to 2TB" in the top-level comment is really a useful comparison to the article (or rest of the thread) if you're talking about data that is from clients; not your own. Of course you can't "comprehend" that if it's not-very-compressible sensor data that you need to keep on someone else's behalf or for your business (the specul…
Umm doesn't gigabit ethernet basically give you a max of 125MB/s anyways? And I was seeing transfer rates of sequential read from 7200rpm SATA drives greater than that even 8 years ago...
NO! I will keep adding an /archive folder to every PC I own and copy the complete contents of my previous /home/ folder into it, including an endless amount of recursive /archive folders. I will never look at any of those again. But Archeologists in the far future will find my data and it will revolutionize their understanding of our time.
I do look at mine. Rarely for something special / useful. Sure, i won't ever again need the drivers for that dell c600 that died 15 years ago. But just seeing that installer brought back fond memories! Randomly looking in there is fun every once in a while. And with storage still growing decently, why should i delete anything? It's not like physical boxes of photos/etc that would take up more and more space every yea…
Indeed the emotional value of said sometimes silly things can't be understated
And as personal (local) search gets better with smarter systems it may be that future codebases will surface interesting insights or memories of some long ago event or activity as it can do with photos today.
However when my parents pass on I will discard all the landscape photos and and all the photos of long dead relatives I only met as a kid and don't even remember. Some of those are quite meaningful to my mum and dad, but are meaningless to me.
And I get the whole storage is cheap line of thinking.
But there’s actually a different problem outside of photos, etc. Simply, index pollution.
I have lots of little projects on my machine. I have lots of open source code on my machine. And, while I can’t think of any specific examples, there are areas of search on that, dare I accidentally trip into that hole, are just filled with detritus and garbage.
My Spotlight is gorged with false positives for some terms. And I know that I have searched for things that I know I have, but unable to locate, or at least certainly not easily, because I was searching “wrong”.
Indexing provides lightning fast access to everything I don’t want to see.
Mind not much I plan to do about it. I guess I can take some “never again“ stuff, put them on an external drive, and tell Spotlight to ignore it.
That said also, my phone is full. About 2g free. Mostly photos and videos. Mostly my cats. Solution is simple. Need a bigger phone.