• spez@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Only ever use 25% of my already small nvme lol, I am at the other end of the bell curve I guess

  • irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.ee
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    7 days ago

    I was once wondering where 80gb of my storage went when I was reinstalling a game, and I eventually found out it was because I forgot to delete the .rar archive after I extracted it.

    Small stuff (arguably) like that always fills my disks until it becomes a problem.

    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      That’s why I use tools like dust or TreeSizeView to see where storage is being used. Far easier to find the culprits.

  • Rooty@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Try being a graphic designer or video editor. I’ve stopped running out of disk space and started running out of SATA slots on the mobo.

    • stupidcasey@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      Get a NAS, you should be using one any way, It makes switching computers extremely easy, you don’t have to bother transferring hundreds of TB just install the apps you use and your good to go.

    • deltapi@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      Got space for a PCIe 8x card? Get a lsi2308 and a set of SAS to SATA cables. 8 drives off that bad boy, and actually reliable unlike every single PCI or PCIe SATA card I’ve ever tried.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    That’s how I got a free netbook. It had 32GB and could not be expanded. 27GB on it was wasted on windows and office. And then it needed to download an 8GB update.

    Owner had to buy a new one, I got the old one for free. It now has 26GB free, with Linux, libreoffice, and developer tools already installed.

    • jim3692@discuss.online
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      7 days ago

      I am still trying to figure out what is going since Win 7, and it takes so much space (I don’t know about Vista)

  • amotio@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    I have just bought 8TB drive, but thus time I am using it ONLY to backup and store stale data, so far 1TB cleanes from my main SSDs. Wish me luck.

      • LandedGentry@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        7 days ago

        You can get a cheap QNAP 4 bay with 4x 12-18tb refurbished enterprise drives for a 36-54tb RAID5 for like sub $800 (as low as $600) tbh. Don’t know if you have the budget for that but the speed will be faster and you’ll be solidly protected from data loss on the unit.

        You could even do a 2 bay with like 2x 24tb for a combined 48tb or backed up 24tb for idk $400?

        • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
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          7 days ago

          Whoa-Dang! I foresee a business expense in my office’s near future. FWIW, I’ve been pondering setting up a server, for various projects.

          • LandedGentry@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            7 days ago

            I set up my first RAID5 a few months ago and let me tell you it was trivially easy. Don’t regret it for a second. I have not shifted my server over to it yet but that is in the works.

            For context it’s a 42TB RAID5 (4x 14tb ultra stars) and all in I was like $650. I got really lucky during Black Friday and got those drives for like 110 eagles a piece or something

              • LandedGentry@lemmy.zipEnglish
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                7 days ago

                Good luck! Holler if you have any questions. Though most of the stuff is pretty easy to search luckily

                • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
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                  7 days ago

                  Well thank you! I have various parts & peices, that I think is sufficient to set things up. I should say, I’m not in the Linux environment. And from what I’ve read it looks so much easier than it would have been in the 90s when I started using computers in earnest.

  • Bluefruit@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    This def feels like a shirt that goes hard. I’d wear the hell outta this lol.

    Between steam games and music vst, I’m getting stacked brother.