Right now about a quarter of respondents have 1TB or more, so while I'm not in the majority, it seems I'm in good company. 47% of respondents seem to be in the

Right now about a quarter of respondents have 1TB or more, so while I'm not in the majority, it seems I'm in good company. 47% of respondents seem to be in the 100GB-1TB bracket as of right now. Here's the breakdown of my data (largish categories only) ==BUSINESS CRITICAL== * 5GB of codebases I've committed to in the last 3 years. * 50GB worth of software. Mostly development tools. Five different versions of XCode, I actually use most of them every day (scary, I know…) * 50GB of VM images I use for development. I could rebuild them, but I really don't want to. * 80GB on my boot volume. Stuff I would backup if and only if I want a live, bootable backup. Save me a lot of time during a restore. * 5GB in ebooks; primarily used for reference / searching * 20GB in music * 20GB in scanned documents, mostly financial and legal paperwork, contracts, etc. * 15GB of e-mail ==OTHER THINGS AVAILABLE NOWHERE ELSE== * 250GB of samples/patches/instruments that I've built over the years and songs I've written (I play keyboards for fun). Not business critical, but I'd be sad if I lost it. * 20GB of backups from computers I used to own growing up. The nostalgia of that game I was coding in middle-school, etc. * 100GB in learning resources I've collected over the years that are out of print or otherwise unavailable anywhere else. Not useful to me (anymore), but sharing them with others is valuable to both me and them. * 20GB of home video * 13GB in personal photos ==THINGS I DON'T WANT TO DOWNLOAD AGAIN== * 375GB of Apple Development videos. I refer to these fairly regularly. I typically watch a few each day to keep up-to-date. * 20GB of Steam games Looking at this list, sure, I could live without some of it. But a lot of it is pretty important, and it would be nice to back up most of it.