My text, schoolwork, downloaded documents, etc would probably fit in that area. In a former life, I was a photo major though, and I'm also mildly obsessed with keeping all of the data.I don't know how all you lot are trifling with multi-terabyte disksI could probably backup every single thing I possibly have on 250GB.
It's much like the Allie Brosh meme -- CLEAN ALL OF THE THINGS!!
I also have like 220 gigs of music on one of my machines which I need to sort through (and admittedly, toss most of.)
The photos are actually an interesting spectacle. Previously, what i would do was sort them all into 4-gig (approximately) buckets and do all of my viewing/rating/tagging in Adobe Bridge. Then, twice every year (I'm coming up on the time when I would do it, I need to make a decision pretty soon) I would burn all of these folders to new DVDs.
This was both a change management technique, and a data continuity technique, because I don't really trust optical media.
Each time I do it, it takes forever, even though there's almost no work or thought to be done, and I almost always mess up somehow. (usually by mis-labeling a disk or burning the same stuff twice.)
My more recent strategy has been to keep the stuff on one of my laptop's auxiliary disks, and then back that up to a file server VM on my big server, and then back that up to the large external drive. That may or may not get refined in the next few months/years as I start to have more time to think about backup strategies. (Something I don't get to think about nearly as often as I'd like. [
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