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Indeed photos are the gateway drug to data hoarding. I'm at 128 TB myself, I now have Wikipedia dumps, millions of books, thousands of YouTube videos, papers, e
by arnaudsm 4y ago
Indeed photos are the gateway drug to data hoarding. I'm at 128 TB myself, I now have Wikipedia dumps, millions of books, thousands of YouTube videos, papers, everything I can download pretty much.
You'd be surprised how ephemeral the web is. My favorite YouTube videos from 2010 are all gone, I'm glad I kept a copy.
- LorenPechtel 4y agoFor most people it comes down to not being worth taking the time to prune. Without attempting to shop around I'm seeing something like $25/TB for large drives. A photo and it's corresponding .RAW (for those of us who shoot cameras that record such) takes maybe 20MB unless you have some pretty high end gear. 50,000 photos per terabyte. 0.05 cent per photo. If you work at minimum wage that's about a quarter second of your time. You're much better off working and buying a bigger drive than in pruning unwanted photos.
- fmajid 4y agoThe cost is in retrieval if you have to sift through the dross. Technologies like facial recognition and GPS geotagging can help a little, but ultimately you need curation.