I actually have twelve TB of storage.
Mostly music, though.
I want that kind of storage. It would make my life a lot easier.
I bought beer today. Anchor Steam, finally. It's been a while.
You must understand that I do not compress my music into little - nine tenths of the music deleted forever - MP3 files.
When I rip, I use wav format which is basically the same size per song as what is on a CD. The fact that I have been ripping my fairly large CD collection for almost ten years using this method accounts for my need for large amounts of storage. In addition, I learned about five years ago that I do not have to use the same, barely adequate, methods for saving "vinyl to digital" rips. I can create much larger files at much higher resolution, going from analog to digital than would even fit on any disk storage size before Blu-ray was available. One LP can end up being ten, twenty or more GB in file size when ripped at 48/192. So, the only way to save them efficiently and have them available instantly, with the kind of bandwidth transfer rates to get the most out of this system is to keep them at full resolution on a hard drive.
The seven thousand CDs, three thousand LPs, and thousands of hours of live tapes I have converted to high resolution digital all take up quite a bit of space, but the eight hundred odd movies I have decrypted and saved from my DVD collection are not compressed either. It all adds up after a while. I am thankful to have larger drive sizes these days, so that I do not have to do so much shuffling of drives to get to all my music and movies. I am gradually replacing a huge pile of eighty GB, forty GB, one hundred twenty GB (etc.) size drives where all my backups were for a long while.
BTW, I wasn't counting the huge pile of smaller drives I am gradually replacing when I mentioned that I have twelve TB of storage available to me.
