And why was it only after you realized your Golden Girls directory ballooned past 200GB?
When I ran out of storage space.
this is the only true answer.
like making backups only when the disk starts clicking.
I’m waiting for the disk to stop clicking before I back it up. Any day now!
it’s fine, raid0 is a backup right?
You read my mind! Now help me read this dead mechanical drive, would you?
When I ran out and there was nothing I wanted to delete
When I decided to host my own personal Plex server. Now I can finally say I have a big D:/
And yes it is nothing but mixed media.
I usually expand when I reach 80% capacity.
And why was it only after you realized your Golden Girls directory ballooned past 200GB?
Did you find the show in 1080p somewhere? But yeah, I only have 480p and it still takes 70GB.
Let’s not talk about the 1.1TB Simpsons folder …
You could easily trim that Simpsons directory down by over 75% by only keeping the good seasons
That is NOT the spirit!
The year was 2006, and the 80 GB HDD in my Dell Optiplex 790 was full of podcasts, stolen music, and episodes of Dr. Who…
Why did you download podcasts?
To listen to…
Sure, but you did you download them, listen to them and then delete them, or did you keep them around for archival purposes? Because it’s rather untypical to re-listen to a podcast episode many times, which you might do with music.