Digital clutter: Learning to let go and stop hoarding terabytes
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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
#2If you choose SSDs, remember to power them up every few months or so to keep the data alive.
Re: Digital clutter: Learning to let go and stop hoarding terabytes
#3> It's when you start looking for 4TB SSDs that the prices go up considerably
That’s not my experience, having recently built a PC for myself. SN850x 4TB was about 2x the 2 TB price. (Depending on the day, it was -15% to +20% from the linear price, but was usually in the 3-5% higher than linear.)
I didn’t see a reason to go small for a couple hundred bucks of delayed purchase.
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#4Not sure how are these nvme enclosures supposed to work. The problem is right in the picture. Samsung SSD bla bla 3.3V/3.3A = 11W and that's just for the SSD itself, the controller chip in the enclosure will also consume a lot of power at the advertised speeds. So you're looking at say 13W or so peak power consumption of the whole deal.
Normal USB 3.0 port can do 4.5W. So sticking that contraption into such port will not work reliably at all. Specially marked USB 3.0 port can deliver maybe 7.5W. Type-C ports, who knows. Depends on what the port advertises via pullup-resistors. It may be 4.5W, 7.5W or 15W. You never know.
Nice in theory, but none of the usb nvme adapters that I bought work reliably in any port for longterm use.
They certainly don't work in any low power devices, like various ARM SBC USB ports because most of those use current limiting power switches for USB ports.
And they don't work in my workstation reliably longterm either, for whatever reason.
I guess you really have to be lucky to have a 15W Type-C data port. Funny how often these sell with Type-C USB-A cables, though.
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#5I'm the opposite. I am selective, but it's work to decide what's worth keeping, especially if you are prolific with your camera. However, two years later I have more emotional distance and have grown as a photographer, and it's easier to discard swaths. Bulk storage plus time makes easier.
It's the same approach I take with tax documents. Roughly group by year, yes, but why carefully select which ones I have to keep now, when I can just throw all of them out in a few more years?
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#6NO!
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.
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#7I work with photos and videos and cannot comprehend downsizing to 2TB. Or even finding time to go through and selectively cull old footage. I shot a simple one-day drone-only vineyard job last week that generated 140GB, not including graded renders and photo edits afterwards.
On any given day, I will have 5-7 external drives connected, plus a NAS box. There are another 15+ drives (2-5TB) in the drawer beside me. SSDs as drives I actively work from and platter drives for backups or rendered footage.
I feel like the secret is to nailing the workflow at ingest/render because it’s painful trying to going through en masse and a year later.
Edit: I’ll add that I think one problem is that in shooting with a drone, there’s less to cull. Everything is in focus. A high percentage of the photos are usable in media libraries for the client and about 95% of all video shot is. My wife is a photographer and far fewer shots make the cut because of focus, or a facial expression, etc.
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#8NO! 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.
This is me and my Downloads folder. Apps that will never run again. Fonts I outgrew.
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#9Not sure how are these nvme enclosures supposed to work. The problem is right in the picture. Samsung SSD bla bla 3.3V/3.3A = 11W and that's just for the SSD itself, the controller chip in the enclosure will also consume a lot of power at the advertised speeds. So you're looking at say 13W or so peak power consumption of the whole deal. Normal USB 3.0 port can do 4.5W. So sticking that contraption into such port will…
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Re: Digital clutter: Learning to let go and stop hoarding terabytes
#10Not sure how are these nvme enclosures supposed to work. The problem is right in the picture. Samsung SSD bla bla 3.3V/3.3A = 11W and that's just for the SSD itself, the controller chip in the enclosure will also consume a lot of power at the advertised speeds. So you're looking at say 13W or so peak power consumption of the whole deal. Normal USB 3.0 port can do 4.5W. So sticking that contraption into such port will…
> Not sure how are these nvme enclosures supposed to work.
Aren't there some with their own external power? If anyone has a brand/model to recommend I'm all ears.