how much storage do you use a year?
 

So your hardrives & ssd´s on your pc or laptop gets filled to fuck, how often do you download the content onto storage drives?

Personally, we use a TB every year & have a new drive for each year, to keep it safe. This contains our original images & film from that year, also a HD edit film from that year ready for resale or if we need to update any website from corrupt updates.

Our laptop that we usually work from has a tb, so that fills up over the year & is emptied to about 200gb, which is downloads, videos & photos, left on the drive to be used on daily basis.

Interested to know how much content other producers & creators are using, also site & blog owners, everyone in general, how much data are you storing & using every year?

Are you happy storage costs have gone down & some good prices for some great drives out there...

bonus question. When is RAM going to decrease in price? I heard some robberies are happening at the moment due to lack of RAM for sale!

I only produce code... so not a whole lot of storage needed.

I have an internal 3 TB back up drive as well as a external 3 TB back up drive on my computer that updates every couple of days. Sometimes to save clients money I'll do a lot of their graphics etc which they appreciate

Do you still use external drives to keep your code & sites on a safe storage or do you trust in everything being on a server someone else in the world?

While trusting in our server, personally, good idea to keep your stuff on your self too :thumbsup

damn, that´s huge back up, fair play...

altogether we´ve 15 1tb drives all filled with images & video content.

around 7.5tb a year - 5tb WD elements disks - So 1 and a half drives per year...

Of course... 1tb external timecapsule for Mac, gets backed up daily... although there is less than 300 gigs actually being used.

None. I have nothing to back up. All of the pictures I take are automatically put online with Google Pics. That's all I need.

I've never gone over ~200GB of disk usage.

25 tb :)

Are your storage drives not tax deductible in Spain? Mine are in the UK - So price is irrelevant as its a business expense?

that´s a lot of data!

yeah, that´s cool :thumbsup

I take it, you´re dealing in code & not video & photo files?

That´s a big amount of content, how many sites do you run or what kind of content are you saving & working with?

1tb storage disks are just 60 quid here, so once a year, not even worth worrying about putting through the books. Some times easier just to pay it out. Most business expenses are similar, although, somethings, like wifi, it´s questionable, Spain suggests it would be an asset used in the home anyway.

My machine is treated as ephemeral. All code is in remote git repositories, photos and video auto sync with iCloud, and documents are on iCloud+

I could toss my machine in the ocean right now and be back up and running in an hour from getting a new MacBook.

5TB RAM and hard drive

I take it you trust in the cloud a lot...

I must admit, it´s only recently I´ve heard about hard drives deteriating & it does make us worry about our content from 10 yr ago. Hearing it´s best to plug drives in every 6 months or so and run them for a bit...

that´s a huge amount of content...

do you create & produce?

I can't speak for massive amounts of content like what you guys have, but for my usecases absolutely. All my photos are taken with my iphone so immediately on icloud, my machines are all mac so I have icloud syncing for documents, that covers all my needs.

I also don't have physical media and haven't since ~2014. I strictly stream everything and buy all my movies from Apple Movies and watch them on my AppleTV

Actually I take that back I have the all of Tales from the Crypt on DVD because I can't find it streaming anywhere.

a decade of photo and video creation fits on one external drive.

a few years ago transferred everything from a big box of cds/dvds.

looked, at least some seasons are at archive.org

So much too much. Every year, I think I should get a NAS ... and then I price out what it would cost with the size I'd need. With AI demand, storage is actually getting more expensive, unlike how that sort of tech used to go.