Larger vs Smaller Storage

[HeyIAmInfinity]

Hi everyone, i'm going to need to get a second HD soon as i have 100 gb free atm.

What i'm not sure if i should look for something similar or get something a lot larger and just replace the hd.

 

My idea in the medium future is to split my pc with virtualization and have a portion always on as a plex server (when there is a serious upgrade for me as i don't think anything that came out in the last few years is).

 

Should i start looking at 10+TB sizes or get another 4 TB?

 

Main use of these drive is 80% video.

 

[Dedayog]

I'd start looking at a 2nd PC for PLex.   I ran Plex off my main rig but game downloads, driver updates, etc had me restarting it much more often than was I wanted.

 

Sucks having to wait for a user to end their movie so you can restart for a driver update

 

So I would advocate a smaller, which in your case is larger than 99.9% of us who would see 4TB as fucking big.

[HeyIAmInfinity]

Interesting so from your perspective 4TB is already large...

 

I was thinking of getting 60 to 80 TB when i fully upgrade my pc so that i can be sure i don't need to care for storage for the next 10 years.

 

So in your opinion i should just get another the same size?

 

I don't see a point in getting a second pc for it as i don't have a lot of issue with what you are saying. I can just ask to stop using it and do whatever i need, as we already sync files to the devices instead of streaming most of the times.

[Dedayog]

Just now, HeyIAmInfinity said:

Interesting so from your perspective 4TB is already large...

 

I was thinking of getting 60 to 80 TB when i fully upgrade my pc so that i can be sure i don't need to care for storage for the next 10 years.

 

So in your opinion i should just get another the same size?

 

I don't see a point in getting a second pc for it as i don't have a lot of issue with what you are saying. I can just ask to stop using it and do whatever i need, as we already sync files to the devices instead of streaming most of the times.

You think those drives will still work in 10 years, or be relevant?  What do you really need all that space for?

 

Well if you look at my rigs, I use 1TB SSD's or a 3TB HDD in the Plex.  4TB is outside my useful range so yes it's big.  I will probably buy one to add to the Plex if I get more movies or shows.  If it's not on Netflix or Amazon, I go get it.  *shrug*

 

I don't collect things. I DL what I want when I want it.  I don't form a library just to fill it out and "have" stuff.

 

Again, no idea what you need 60-80TB for but that's a LOT of room.  

 

 

[HeyIAmInfinity]

Right now i would be fine with 20-25 TB for the short term (3 years), i have around 10TB of photos in 1TB HD that i don't use often enough to have on my pc, but it would be nice to have them there (sometimes i need to go through 3 HD to find the right photo).

I have a 5 TB USB drive that i use as a place to move files i don't need now, like a TV shows that no one plans on watching for the next 6 months for example.

 

In theory i already have around 18 TB of full storage but i obviously don't need all that capacity or i would have upgraded already (this is in the it would be nice but not needed now category).

 

A new HDD would allow me to replace that USB HD so that's why i thought at least 4TB.

[Dedayog]

Out of curiosity, how MANY photos is 10TB?  And of what?  I do not do pics for pics sake, like the lady who took a picture of her meal at the restaurant behind me yesterday, so I really have no idea.

 

I can understand pics of kids and what not for first day of school, etc.  But 10TB of pics is literally hundreds of thousands of pics?  How?

[HeyIAmInfinity]

A large number of picture are digitized from film and are very heavy (i have pictures from the 1800s of my family members).

Since i did all that years ago i keep the raw files and then edited copies. Because i traveled at least 2 weeks per year since 6 there are at least 30k pictures (1k per year for average and you can probably add double for before 6).

 

I expect that most would just keep the edit and not the raw files, if you do that you can reduce it to maybe less than 1 TB.

 

But as i said i don't really need to have these accessible at all times, current solution is fine.