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Digital clutter: Learning to let go and stop hoarding terabytes

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Re: Digital clutter: Learning to let go and stop hoarding terabytes

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Post by Too »

whartung wrote: post #50

I know this is talking about large files like photos and videos. 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 t…

You could swap to Windows. The search there never finds anything, not even files that you know exist in the root of the directory you are searching inside.

Re: Digital clutter: Learning to let go and stop hoarding terabytes

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Post by Our_Benefactors »

shrubble wrote: post #44

" I had gigabit ethernet but that doesn’t matter, these spinning disks are barely faster than 100MB/s for sequential read even with a RAID setup." 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...

This, bottlenecked by NIC and unaware.

10GbE NAS are starting to become more available in the prosumer range. Once they are more affordable I wonder if they are reasonably close to saturating the SATAIII limit.

Re: Digital clutter: Learning to let go and stop hoarding terabytes

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Post by voltagex_ »

m463 wrote: post #80
voltagex_ wrote: post #69

Nah, too many files have disappeared completely from the Internet, no one's interested in archiving and no, archive.org doesn't get everything.

Just keep buying bigger drives, copy the old stuff forward, keep like 3 sets and... who cares? now running an always-online raid server? nah.

I did hit an issue where 20TB drives require substantial (2A) current when they first spin up, but other than that, that's the plan.

Re: Digital clutter: Learning to let go and stop hoarding terabytes

#85

Post by theodric »

Too wrote: post #81
whartung wrote: post #50

I know this is talking about large files like photos and videos. 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 t…

You could swap to Windows. The search there never finds anything , not even files that you know exist in the root of the directory you are searching inside.

Everything is the cure! https://www.voidtools.com/downloads/

Re: Digital clutter: Learning to let go and stop hoarding terabytes

#86

Post by quickthrower2 »

prawn wrote: post #14
quickthrower2 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you are doing it for a client (?) then you just need to back it up and charge them an appropriate fee. There is not much cognitive load as to whether it is worth keeping or not as the client decides. With hobby stuff and especially family photos it becomes hard to decide whether to keep it all, spend time curating it, maybe down sizing it. If you can get all your memories in 2Tb or less it makes backup management…

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…

I am jealous of where you get to go for those gigs!

Re: Digital clutter: Learning to let go and stop hoarding terabytes

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Post by pjerem »

Too wrote: post #81
whartung wrote: post #50

I know this is talking about large files like photos and videos. 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 t…

You could swap to Windows. The search there never finds anything , not even files that you know exist in the root of the directory you are searching inside.

Man that’s so true.

And don’t get me on how the start menu is able to show you the bing results seconds before the installed application you were searching for.

The search feature is so ridiculously unusable since years that I can’t imagine that someone in the windows team cares anymore.

I somehow remember the indexed search to somehow work back in the vista days when it was brand new.

Re: Digital clutter: Learning to let go and stop hoarding terabytes

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Post by esperent »

Too wrote: post #81
whartung wrote: post #50

I know this is talking about large files like photos and videos. 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 t…

You could swap to Windows. The search there never finds anything , not even files that you know exist in the root of the directory you are searching inside.

On my previous laptop, Windows 10 search was totally broken. For several years and despite me occasionally spending an hour trawling for fixes.

On my new laptop, which I bought a year ago, still running Windows 10, it has always worked perfectly. Not sure if MS fixed something, or some kind of indexing error happened on my old laptop.

Re: Digital clutter: Learning to let go and stop hoarding terabytes

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Post by esperent »

pjerem wrote: post #87
Too wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could swap to Windows. The search there never finds anything , not even files that you know exist in the root of the directory you are searching inside.

Man that’s so true. And don’t get me on how the start menu is able to show you the bing results seconds before the installed application you were searching for. The search feature is so ridiculously unusable since years that I can’t imagine that someone in the windows team cares anymore. I somehow remember the indexed search to somehow work back in the vista days when it was brand new.

You can turn off the Bing search.

Re: Digital clutter: Learning to let go and stop hoarding terabytes

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Post by concerned_ »

Hoarding terabytes is sort of a thing you can never get your head around unless you are stealing mp3s.

But hoarding gigabytes is pretty easy, also I think the term hoarding is pretty loaded language in this context? Saving things so they don't get lost is the way to go.

Just as an example, after Steve Jobs died apple went into everyone's email at .me and deleted their emails between them and SJ.

You probably didnt see that coming.

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