Something that I’ve been having trouble with recently is I’m running out of room on my hard drives. Storage didn’t use to be such a problem. However, my addiction to bit torrents have gotten me into storage trouble.

I find myself saving larger video files and it’s constantly eating up my free space. So I have to make some decisions on what to keep and what to delete. You would think that 750gb would be enough for me. But no… I’m deleting files and cleaning up my drives almost on a weekly basis. And of course, fragmenting those drives at the same time.

Here are some of the things I’m doing to keep/consolidate/delete my data:

1. The Big Purge. I hate to do it. I agonize over what I must through out. But in the end, I’m deleting lots of content.

2. Data Shuffle. Here’s where I have to move those larger files I MUST keep to new drives, partitions or other computers. I hate doing this. Normally I’m very organized. Raid Arrays broken out into partitions that are designated for data types. Space constraints force me to mix my files, and it drives me crazy!

3. Forced Defrag. All this data movement constantly fragments my drives forcing me to defrag on a weekly basis.

I know the solution here. It’s time to migrate all my data to a NAS drive, but I’m just too cheap to do it. I’ll be on the lookout for an inexpensive 1TB solution with a simple setup. Hopefully something will catch my eye soon.

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