Curious about statistics - why you need lot's of storage?

[katit]

Ok, here is my question. I see crazy builds around here. For home! Why you need all this terabytes of storage?

For example, I have 1Tb and it's about 50% full. All my documents (for business) and my wifes documents (all paperless - CPA business) all there. All our family videos and pictures there. Some mp3s and some kids cartoons and videos there. I even have off-site backup into my home NAS from work (VM backups)

I'm building new NAS now and plan to have 4-6TB of protected storage and 4TB stripe for junk like cartoons and stuff which I can easily replace. But I plan to backup all of the home PC's into this new NAS which may take extra 1TB.

So.. What do YOU store on your 20+ disk NAS systems? :)

 

[cyberjock]

Whoa there. I will cut you if you aren't going to be all hardcore and shiz like the rest of us!

I'd better see your next post be a receipt for buying 24x8TB drives or we aren't going to be friends anymore.

:P

 

[katit]

Doubt that's going to happen :p

But. I'm just training my imagination. If. If. I was keeping collection of blu ray movies in storage. If. All of them 50Gb. It's 20 movies to 1TB. So, I can hold 200 movies in 10TB. Is thats' what all of you doing? Collecting hundreds of blu ray movies? :)

 

[DifferentStrokes]

I'm sure you will get a range of answers to this. Some things I can think of to add to your list would be:
ISO's for different OSs
Customer temp. storage

 

[Ericloewe]

A big part of it is room to grow. It's a pain to have to add vdevs shortly after building the server.

 

[hugovsky]

Off site backup, 400 GB of family photos, web sites backups, some music, some animation movies for the kids (kodi with raspberry) and timemachine backups. Total +3.5TB of data.

 

[Darren Myers]

Well see....i have a digital hoarding problem....The first step is admitting you have a problem, which i do; but im not accepting help at this time. I have 16xx movies, another 120 odd TV shows, some stand up specials, and my 116,xxx songs.....soooo needless to say i need space, and space to grow. But i also keep alot of ISO's , software , and misc stuff as well; but i dont keep *everything* locally, i use crashplan and have roughly 27Tb in the cloud of different revisions of files, and files that have been long since deleted from the server, that if i need them i can just restore the files.

 

[Bidule0hm]

Yep, mostly media too + user documents.

 

[Robert Smith]

In addition to what has been said, system image backups are pretty big. Also if you are a video camera user, these footages are substantial.

Then, turning on snapshots allows you to keep old versions of files. That takes space too.

If you are into graphics design, keeping various stock libraries can be handy. Those are often huge.

Disk ISOs and installation packages also add-up quickly.

Just a few things at the top of my head.

 

[Dennis.kulmosen]

At home I have a lot of stuff. Movies, pictures, different OS images plus a few backups of my VM's. I have about 16TB Raid-Z useable which is half full. My chassis is full so I opted for the 4TB drives from beginning.
At work I build large post-production systems with sometimes 100+TB of work and nearline storage. So that is why you see these gigantic systems in the forum. [emoji41]

 

[Spearfoot]

Project archives going back 25 years; system backups; installation images for operating systems, development tools, database servers, system tools, and productivity software; dozens of virtual machine images I use to develop and test software; family documents and photographs; a very few video and music tracks. Even with all of this stuff, I use less than 3TB of space.

I'm curious to see the answers of those folks here with the really huge home storage systems. My guess is that video libraries are the big space hogs.

 

[katit]

Spearfoot. Eaxactly. I figured if I religiously kept all my dev environments and VM all my machines before ditching - I may be up to 3Tb by now.. But... It's only 600Gb. I do have ISO's too (didn't mention in original post), but it's probably 50Gb or so..

I also suspect that whoever does serious photography and stores all shots in raw. Or maybe videos..

 

[Darren Myers]

I'm curious to see the answers of those folks here with the really huge home storage systems. My guess is that video libraries are the big space hogs.

The only person off hand i can think of that does have, or can have a huge storage system is @pclausen and @DataKeeper , i'm just a little guy with 32Tb lol

 

[pirateghost]

My build is (20) 3TB drives in 2 vdevs of 10 disks each in RAIDZ2.

Media library
backups for all the computers in my house (roughly 3TB of backups)
My kid makes YouTube videos with his friends, and uses space on my server for video files
OS distro ISOs
Proxmox VM storage/backup

 

[Darren Myers]

My kid makes YouTube videos with his friends, and uses space on my server for video files

Lol my kid, not son or daughter just kid.

 

[pirateghost]

Lol my kid, not son or daughter just kid.

LOL. He has a birthday coming up next week....he won't be my kid for much longer. ;)

 

[katit]

Ok. I guess we know now what people store. But I see tendency mentioning how much total storage people have, what they store, but NOT how much storage actually used :D

Please post how much you have and how much you actually use. I think there is a lot of "future planning" going on. I'm guilty of it myself. I habe 1TB 60% full and already thinking about expanding :)

 

[Darren Myers]

Here ya go!

 

[pirateghost]

I have 29.5 TiB available. And that is decreasing quickly

 

[Bidule0hm]

I am at exactly 20 % used with 3 % of docs and 17 % of media. I plan to do some serious youtube videos and HD is heavy so, yeah, I'll use the pool more efficiently pretty soon :)