Heh :-) Disk usage is directly related to available space.
At home I have a 4x1Tb raidz filled to overflowing with music, photos,
movies, archives, and backups for 4 other machines in the house. I'll
be adding another 4 and an SSD shortly.
It starts with importing CDs into iTunes or WMP, then comes the TV
recordings, then comes ripping your DVD collection... Hey disk is
cheap, right?
Once you have gotten out of the habit of using shiny discs for music,
video is a logical progression. You also stop being finicky about
minimizing file space - I've gone from high quality mp3 to lossless
formats.
I also have some colleagues that have Flip Mimos and equivalents that
capture 720p video and that just chews through disk space. Those 12Mb
shots of baby taking his/her first steps are now multi gigabyte raw
video files.
Trust me, it's easy.
Erik
On 30 sept. 2009, at 16:48, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
I can see that people heavily active in live audio or (especially)
video
recording would fill disks considerably faster than my still
photography
does (about 12MB per image, before I start editing it and storing
extra
copies). But I have to say that I'm finding the size NAS boxes
people are
building for what they call "home use" to be rather startling. I'm
using
4 400GB disks with 100% redundancy; lots of people are talking about
using
8 or more 1TB or bigger disks with 25% redundancy. That's a hugely
bigger
pool! Do you actually fill up that space? With what?
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