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by signalToNose 817 days ago
22 Tb is a lot of data. I wonder what people do with all the stuff they hoard?
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If you're the computer nerd for your extended family, both biological and chosen, that's a lot of photos and videos of birthdays and weddings and funerals, but most likely it's for a private Netflix-like service that never (unless the drives get killed) removes videos.
Video games, 4K HDR BD rips of movies and RAW shots from a DSLR add up _very quickly_.
Well, it might be a couple of weeks worth of some logs/stats. I use sample datasets of similar size in my routine development workflows. That data is not important though.
They watch and share their pirated video.

Sort of sarcasm, sort of not.