I'm thinking it's about time to go through all of my digital "stuff" and do some spring cleaning, archiving to DVD, and general cleanup.
Between my laptop & desktop, I think I'm using the following space:
Pictures & Video: 80gb
Documents: 15gb
Software ISOs: 72gb
Backups/archives of phones, laptops, family computers: 32gb
Virtual Machines: 425gb (not including a 250gb P2V backup of an old laptop)
My Dropbox folder has swollen to almost 25gb. I have my 2tb Apple Time Capsule split into 2 1tb partitions for Time Machine backups and NAS backups, plus a 1tb USB drive and a 320gb usb drive attached. I also have a 1.5tb USB 3.0 drive that I use as a redundant backup.
I need to spend some time doing through everything, deleting & archiving photos. In the past I didn't do a good job of sorting through photos to delete the blurry and bad ones. I also need to do a better job at cataloging them. I'm kind of a digital packrat. I'm thinking I should archive some to DVD and delete them from my magnetic drives to free up space and make it easier to find stuff I still care about.
I'm really not using but two of my VMs. I'm thinking I'll probably delete a couple of those. One of the big ones could probably be cleaned up a bit.
I also have a bunch of redundant local backups that could be streamlined.
It might be a good excuse to buy a new, larger USB drive to use as a target for backups before I start deleting anything.
This looks pretty cost effective:
Amazon.com WD My Book 4 TB USB 3.0 Hard Drive with Backup Computers Accessories
Between my laptop & desktop, I think I'm using the following space:
Pictures & Video: 80gb
Documents: 15gb
Software ISOs: 72gb
Backups/archives of phones, laptops, family computers: 32gb
Virtual Machines: 425gb (not including a 250gb P2V backup of an old laptop)
My Dropbox folder has swollen to almost 25gb. I have my 2tb Apple Time Capsule split into 2 1tb partitions for Time Machine backups and NAS backups, plus a 1tb USB drive and a 320gb usb drive attached. I also have a 1.5tb USB 3.0 drive that I use as a redundant backup.
I need to spend some time doing through everything, deleting & archiving photos. In the past I didn't do a good job of sorting through photos to delete the blurry and bad ones. I also need to do a better job at cataloging them. I'm kind of a digital packrat. I'm thinking I should archive some to DVD and delete them from my magnetic drives to free up space and make it easier to find stuff I still care about.
I'm really not using but two of my VMs. I'm thinking I'll probably delete a couple of those. One of the big ones could probably be cleaned up a bit.
I also have a bunch of redundant local backups that could be streamlined.
It might be a good excuse to buy a new, larger USB drive to use as a target for backups before I start deleting anything.
This looks pretty cost effective:
Amazon.com WD My Book 4 TB USB 3.0 Hard Drive with Backup Computers Accessories