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If you have 4TB of data saved at home you are a hoarder. Why do you have that much stuff. I don't have any data at home that I would miss very much if I lost it

If you have 4TB of data saved at home you are a hoarder. Why do you have that much stuff. I don't have any data at home that I would miss very much if I lost it.

xupybd 8y ago
Family photos and videos can take up a lot of space. Also it sounds like the authors work is backed up to this NAS as well. I wouldn't have that much to backup but some do, depending on their hobbies and work.
- ams6110 8y ago
  Photos, videos... Yeah I used to save that stuff. I realized I never looked at it again. So I just stopped. I literally don't worry about losing data at home. Work is different of course.
  - xupybd 8y ago
    I think for some this might be the case but there are some photos people hold dear. Wedding photos, children growing up and other major life events. Each to their own.
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_emacsomancer_ 8y ago
Why? I have lots of PDFs, photos, video. It's a lot more convenient being a 'digital' 'hoarder' than a physical one (though I actually have way too many physical books as well).
matthew-wegner 8y ago
What? This is a wild assertion. My photos alone are north of 4TB. That's DSLR, but not a crazy high-res one (to say nothing of people with video hobbies). I've always worked in small 2-8 person teams for companies that I've been heavily a part of, so that's a huge chunk too. But even discounting that data, I have quite a lot of projects that weigh in pretty heavily. Yeah, I do have some datahoarding-type collections, because that's the sort of thing you end up doing when automation and total storage become commonplace, but just looking at "bytes I have created and will be lost forever if they vanish", I'm well north of 4TB. I think a lot of other people are too. I don't mean this disparagingly, but if a person hasn't had any data-heavy hobbies, and has always been some kind of employee to a larger entity who manages data elsewhere, then yeah, your data footprint might be small. I imagine lots of HN regular types don't fit that mold, though. (On the original link--I don't have much to add to the other comments here. But calling a 4-drive RAID5 setup robust in any sense is nuts. That's data loss waiting to happen, and probably made worse by thinking it is robust)
mrweasel 8y ago
I was wondering the same thing. I don't think the average person have terabytes or even gigabytes of data stored at home. Every time I start a project I make a remote git repo. Music and photos are handled by cloud services... Not that I have photos I really care about, but I'm sure other people do. Documents and configuration files are backup up using Tarsnap, but that's 100Mb at the most. We had a similar debate at work, where I questioned the need for backup of my workstation, arguing that there's nothing on it that's not also in git, on a network share, in LastPass or the mail server. Apparently only two people out of a hundred, me and the CEO, do have important stuff stored solely on our workstations. Calling people with 4Tb of data hoarders may be a little unnecessary, but I do question how much of that data is ever going to be accessed in the future.

If you have 4TB of data saved at home you are a hoarder. Why do you have that much stuff. I don't have any data at home that I would miss very much if I lost it.

xupybd 8y ago

Family photos and videos can take up a lot of space. Also it sounds like the authors work is backed up to this NAS as well. I wouldn't have that much to backup but some do, depending on their hobbies and work.

ams6110 8y ago
Photos, videos... Yeah I used to save that stuff. I realized I never looked at it again. So I just stopped. I literally don't worry about losing data at home. Work is different of course.
- xupybd 8y ago
  I think for some this might be the case but there are some photos people hold dear. Wedding photos, children growing up and other major life events. Each to their own.

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_emacsomancer_ 8y ago

Why? I have lots of PDFs, photos, video. It's a lot more convenient being a 'digital' 'hoarder' than a physical one (though I actually have way too many physical books as well).

matthew-wegner 8y ago

What? This is a wild assertion. My photos alone are north of 4TB. That's DSLR, but not a crazy high-res one (to say nothing of people with video hobbies). I've always worked in small 2-8 person teams for companies that I've been heavily a part of, so that's a huge chunk too. But even discounting that data, I have quite a lot of projects that weigh in pretty heavily. Yeah, I do have some datahoarding-type collections, because that's the sort of thing you end up doing when automation and total storage become commonplace, but just looking at "bytes I have created and will be lost forever if they vanish", I'm well north of 4TB. I think a lot of other people are too. I don't mean this disparagingly, but if a person hasn't had any data-heavy hobbies, and has always been some kind of employee to a larger entity who manages data elsewhere, then yeah, your data footprint might be small. I imagine lots of HN regular types don't fit that mold, though. (On the original link--I don't have much to add to the other comments here. But calling a 4-drive RAID5 setup robust in any sense is nuts. That's data loss waiting to happen, and probably made worse by thinking it is robust)

mrweasel 8y ago

I was wondering the same thing. I don't think the average person have terabytes or even gigabytes of data stored at home. Every time I start a project I make a remote git repo. Music and photos are handled by cloud services... Not that I have photos I really care about, but I'm sure other people do. Documents and configuration files are backup up using Tarsnap, but that's 100Mb at the most. We had a similar debate at work, where I questioned the need for backup of my workstation, arguing that there's nothing on it that's not also in git, on a network share, in LastPass or the mail server. Apparently only two people out of a hundred, me and the CEO, do have important stuff stored solely on our workstations. Calling people with 4Tb of data hoarders may be a little unnecessary, but I do question how much of that data is ever going to be accessed in the future.