Unless you are /v/, Give me 3 reasons to have storage more than

Because I don't like being tied to my home network 100% of the time. Jesus Christ you autist.

>>55791907
?

What's wrong with being tied to home network?

>>55791929
What the fuck do you use laptops for? If you're only going to use it at home, just use a desktop instead.

>>55791885
Because i havent bought a workstation yet. I use externals for backups yet everything is on my 1tb data drive in my t420.

>>55791964
Taking notes, sending emails, writing reports, researching etc. 2bh I don't use desktop too much these days

55G    Anime
12G    Books
1.7G    Dropbox
1.3M    Guitar Tabs
5.4G    Manga
67G    Movies
91G    Music
9.6G    Photographs
1.1G    Pictures
1.1G    Skype
46G    Software
2.1G    University backup

Here's the majority of my 500GB laptop hard drive. Every time I want to download a new film, I have to delete some other older film. Life is suffering with less than 2TB of space.

Any questions?

>>55791885
Need space to multitrack record my band. Can't do that over network, there's too much lag/jitter.

>>55792324
>Backup in the same drive
lol

>>55791885
>watch movie in bed
>play casual games in bed
>work on the lounge
>take laptop to university
>do casual VM work for studies on laptop
>easily fill a tb
what's your issue anon? if you think laptops should have less than 128gb you might as well use a tablet.

>>55792697
>>Backup in the same drive
It's a backup from a dead Dropbox shared folder, you mongoloid.

>>55791885
Copious amounts of religious texts

>>55792742
>Dropbox
Get out turbo pleb

>>55792324
>Any questions?

how can you live with yourself?

>>55791885
You're right
that's why there's a server sitting next to my PC

My laptop has a 128GB SSD. I use it for shitposting.

I also have a manchild machine with 2.5TB storage, that also woks as an owncloud server.

>>55792324
>2.1G University backup
>2G
What an embarrassment

>>55791885
>storing things you want constant access to in "da cloud"
>paying for the privilege to rent your own data

Haha, no.

>>55791885
Virtual machines

>>55791885
>Unless you are /v/
more threads should start like this

In my laptop, bleh, if I'm going somewhere I need to load up a handful of movie/shows. I can't ever fucking focus when I'm traveling.
That said, my laptop's got a 128GiB SSD and that's fine.
I'd argue my phone, that thing chews through storage when I'm recording video, but again, that's just got a 128GiB card in it (plus 32GB of eMMC).
I'm mad because I could fucking well use a 512GB card in it.
Wait shit, I just realized, I'm recovering data off the 128GB card right now and there's so much it's being a real pain to get it all off, and the only reason I need more storage on it is so I don't have to copy my videos off it as frequently, which is a pretty shitty habbit to get into.
I mean, I tell myself I'll image the thing monthly for all the non video littlefiles, but I never do.
You's right anon, fuck more than 128GB.
(That said, the new mi Pro laptop looks fucking nice)

>>55792862
>Virtual machines more than 80G
What exactly do you do with your virtual machines?

>>55792857
>He doesn't know how to setup own server
>He can only think of da cloud

>>55792878
You're still tied to the internet, man. The internet does not beat an external hard drive for availability.

Good goy

>55791885
>Muh photos
I'm a pro photographer and would never trust my imagery to Pajeet. I have two 2TB hard drives and two 5TB drives (redundancy) just to store everything I have. It's getting a bit out of hand, so I might just simplify things and get a NAS with like 20TB or so and be done with it for a few years. Data flies when you work with visual media and actually have shit to do.

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>>55792905
>>55792909
>>55792928
Is /g/ dead?

What is SFTP?

>>55792944
>You're still tied to the internet, man.

I don't know, is /g/ incapable of reading?

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Why have a server for your anime when you can toss more HDDs in your Case?

>>55792959
1. Are you not at this very moment?
2. What are TCP/UDP rules?
3. What is a firewall?

>>55792964
where's chibi-usa?

>>55792964
this is not a cringe thread

>>55791885
>That's what servers are for
Not everyone has the infrastructure to stream 10GB BD rips, anon.

>>55792970
Are you incapable of thinking?

Serious question. I'm talking about how the internet isn't everywhere, and you're rambling about firewalls and other irrelevant shit. To answer your first question, no I'm not always on the internet, be it on the plane or at the cafe where the internet is 25 kb/s. If your whole computer life revolves around the internet you are seriously missing a lot of the applications of a computer.

>>55793003
Why do you need anything but your documents outside house?

>>55791885
>That's what servers are for
I would rather have the data on my own computer.

>>55791885
>Please make an argument without resorting to logic or facts!

Fuck you, autist.

>>55793021
see>>55792944

>>55793012
Music, TV shows, and yes, even a game to play with my friends (oh the heresy!). Storage has never been cheaper, why aren't you buying some to save you the hassle of having to SFTP that 10 GB movie?

>>55793012
I like being able to watch shows and movies on the train, for one thing.

>>55793056
>TV shows in traffic
wow
>Music
You don't need more than 128 GiB

>>55793067
Okay that's a discrete valid reason, but you can stream shows and it doesn't happen always. Laptop battery is not really that much reliable

>>55793081
Please point to where I said traffic you idiot.

Network lag

>own server
>sit next to it with a patch cable
>still slower than fucking SATA
>'heheh, plebs with storage capacity in their desktops and laptops, they'll never know this freedom'

Servers are okay for automated backup though

>>55793041
so your point is that I should spend $200+ on server hardware plus $50 on an HDD instead of just $50 on an HDD, in addition to electricity costs? That's genius, why didn't I think of that?!

>>55793081
>but you can stream shows
a.) that eats mobile data really fast
b.) it's not too hard to find zones of spotty coverage on most routes. Or tunnels with no signal at all.

The same logic applies to planes. Most do have wi-fi nowadays, but it's meant for the business-class crowd with expense accounts who're checking email. It's satellite, so it's both slow and high-latency and very expensive.

I bet you could find overloaded wi-fi networks in a lot of cities that are just plain too slow and choppy to stream.

If you work on more than one big project (libreoffice-core is several GB) a 128GiB SSD can get cramped. Add to that the fact that I often move some films to the desktop telling myself I'll watch in the next few days and 500GiB becomes a minimum.

>>55791885
Seriously?
Yes, I have a 120GB SSD in both my laptop and my desktop, but I also have a 1TB disk in my desktop because sometimes you need to install a huge application.

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>>55792324
>anime
kys faggot

>>55793081
>Music
>You don't need more than 128 GiB
pleb

>>55793127
It also depends on your network card though. Personally 3-4Mbps is perfectly fine for streaming movies unless they are 4k.

>>55793212
Most people listen to music on phones audiophile autist

>>55791885
My pc is a server.

>>55793209
Kill yourself autistic faggot

>>55793041
You dumb shit. I cant just use my own desktop as a streaming server for other devices if I want. why the hell would I need a separate one?

>>55793248
What

>>55793236
Most people are fucking normies

>>55793263
Are you an actual retard?

>>55791885
> Client presentations
> CAD items and revisions
> Photoshop / Premier projects
> VM testing
> Database repair

Yeah, I have a server. And a SAN. And I still have a need for 2-3T on my desktop, in a combination of SSD and spindle.

tl;dr - ITT - Stop liking what I don't like!

>>55793248
There's more than a few things that could disqualify the desktop as a full time server. Windows dual boot for vidya, wildly unstable distro, or just having hot hardware and a need for quiet in one's bedroom, to name a few.

>>55792964
The actual fuck is that? Is that windows 7? Did your little sister fuck it up with a skin or something? Jesus

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>>55793081
>>Music
>You don't need more than 128 GiB
nigga what

>>55793359
And I don't have any of those issues. Especially since my desktop is in my office not my bedroom like some faggot NEET.

>>55791964
laptop
>lootop

>>55791885
MUH GAMES

also, I do have a server with all my movies on already.

I got 2x128gb (win & linux) in my edc laptop, 1tb in my main laptop, filled with a few gigs of music and shit, but manly to temporarily store drive images from normie laptops I reinstall, so that I can charge for data recovery. Another anon brought that idea to my mind a while ago.

>>55792964
heh... my portable USB 3.0 HDD has more storage than all your disks together... heheheheh.

I run a laptop with 128gb.

Movies and tv-shows are on a dedicated 24/7 server machine with plex at home and downloaded automatically with sickrage, couchpotato and deluge. If I don't have internet connection, there's about 20gb space dedicated on the laptop for offline syncing.

Backups are done in dropbox (usually archived with 7zip), stuff I'm actively working on are stored in onedrive because of simplicity.

I have 7 games installed on my laptopt currently (overwatch, darkest dungeon, cities: skylines, theme hospital, overlord, dungeon keeper, tropico 5)

I have 6 different VMs on the machine for testing purposes.

All of this and I still got over 40gb left on the machine.

My desktop PC has 3 SSDs in raid 0 totaling up to 1tb, but I barely even use 200gb.

Stop hoarding shit, guys.

>>55792002
You stupid? I'll spell it out for you: why the fuck do you use a laptop when you seem to only ever use it at home?

Or are you one of those "VPN to home network" bois?

Who fucking cares? This thread is retarded an pointless.

People use computers differently. WOW!

>>55791885
ITT: poorshit trying to justify how he blew all his piocket money on a 128 GB SSD then have no money for extra storage.

Because I'm an autistic manchild who plays video games as one of my main hobbies.

Sure, I could install my vidyer to a server, but then I'd get microstutters out the anus whenever I play open world and similar.

>>55791885
Because why not

>>55791885
Why have a server when its cheaper, outright and over time, to just get more storage and install it in your main machine?

Did you even think before posting?

>>55791885
virtual machines?
music?
>inb4 spotify
no way

>>55793308
Are you?

>>55793315
You don't need more than 128GiB for any of those. Don't pretend to know whatever you are talking about

>>55792964
Pluto isn't a planet, retard.

>>55794729
I use laptop both outside and at home retard, there'd not many reasons to use a desktop for me. Learn to read

>>55791885
Some heavy softwares + Windows is enough to want more than 128GiB:
Unity 3D, Visual Studio and Android SDK and their temp datas are insanely big in my case.

>>55791885
Well, my laptop can't ALWAYS have a network connection, so I like to keep a decent sized cache of media on my laptop.

Otherwise, quite right. Personal servers all the way. If I have an internet connection with my laptop, I'm connected to my home VPN and streaming from my server. Which cost me $50 to build.

i bet op have some minimalistic setup and arch linux

>>55791975
>t420
no one cares

>>55791929
hurr durr botnet
u cant watch cp over internet
its dangerous

>>55792324
>1.1G Skype

tfw dos fits on 1.44mb
tfw it's more than you'll ever need

>>55795941
Probably because you haven't learnt how to type or spell properly

>>55791885
Android SDK.

>>55796376
Really, you need a physically mounted drive for that? Really?

>>55795837
Nor is sun. You're not educated, don't pretend to be

The only reason is literally because 120GB SSD are slow as shit. 240-256GB ones are actually 2 NAND units running in some sort of raid and they're way faster.

A larger disk is cheaper than a server.

>>55791885
>That's what servers are for
what
why

why exactly am I not supposed to store data on my PC according to you?

>>55791885
>Muh video editing

>>55797128
not him but probably you have at least 2-3 devices you use everyday, having a centralized data storage is neat

windows garbarge collector

>>55792996
>10GB
>not 40-90GB
you probably don't even have uncapped gigabit internet for $10/month

>>55792944
>SFTP

It's blocked at the college I work at, and if I try to use a VPN to get around it I only download at around 15kb/s.

>>55792964
Why is nobody talking about the floppy disk?

>>55791885
Laptops are a pain in the ass to upgrade later.


Muh photography (dumping your camera to the laptop in field to check pics out on a better screen)
You're a hipster DJ
Local storage means not having to use mobile data to contact your server.
256 gigs is still very cheap

>have a laptop with a 128gb SSD
>keep all my shit on a 256GB SD card which sits in the laptop at all times
This a good plan or no?

>>55791885

>It's another "anyone with a different use case than me is wrong" episode

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>>55792964
But anon, I do have plenty of HDDs on the desktop and still want to have have a little home server.

>>55793209
>kys
Kill yourself and go back to YouTube you flaming faggot.

>>55791885
> just store it up your butt :^)

>>55791885
>arguing for servers when an extra HDD will do just fine for 99% of people

>>55797391
thats what NAS is for

>>55798479
depends

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>>55793209
Hey look anon. A media server full of anime. I literally bought hardware just to store my chinese cartoons. You mad or just jelly?

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agreed, just get a server.

>>55799184
>Those names
>109TB
Yo what the fuck.

>>55793209
what website are we on again?

>>55799296
Cant wait to get a Blueray drive :p

>>55791885
I got like 2TB full of things.

I'm watching stuff just to make space ;_;

>>55791885
My PC is my server

Coalgirls BDs

>>55791885
Want dual boot on single 1Tb drive.
Windows device manager won't let you shrink windows partition smaller than 499gb.

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>>55791885
My main desktop is also my media center right now until I move at the end of the year and finally set up a permanent network with dedicated media server.

>>55800115
>366 GB of games
>303 GB of tv shows
you have too much time in your hands

>>55795837
Sure it is. All dwarf planets are (same went for minor planets).

Next you'll say dwarf people aren't people.

>>55791885
Pictures to shitpost on 4chan, music, VMs for developing. Plus I have installers of drivers and all my software.
>but server
I don't tolerate delays. That'd be especially bad on my phone, considering I do end up mounting a folder via webdav.

>>55795811
You've never left your parents basement, have you?

Current VM test set is about 200GB.

~200GB of gay furry porn

>>55792874
Work, you fucking neet faggot.

>>55793209
reddit piece of shit

>>55791885
Adobe CC. Everything I need for work takes about half the disk. Big InDesign and Photoshop files can be 0.5 to 1gb each. Plus visual studio.
And that's the disk full, before I even consider games. Or caches and swap files. Or my 20gb email account.

>>55791885
Some of us actually have more than one or two operating systems installed, senpai.

>>55800228
How? Does someone who owns lots of cars or golf clubs or woodworking tools have too much time?

It's not like I watch TV and play vidya literally all day, but when I do I like I have a diverse selection because I don't watch or play many things more than once.

I see you ignored the 20GB of books.

>>55792964
motherfuck, why is the sun smaller than the earth kys and be over with it

>>55791885
Muh music

>>55797889
Use stunnel. It allows you to tunnel ssh and sftp through https. Not just port 443 but actually encased in real https.

Running sshd on 443 works in most places but stunnel works everywhere you can browse the internet. You can even run a normal https server and stunnel at the same time, using domain names to differentiate them.

>>55800228
games are getting huge, and some 50 episode series go well over 50gb depending on the encode these days

>>55791885
Video editing 4K files

>>55800228
>not having an obsession to hoard everything you download ever.
>20tb

>>55801050
What work, go ahead and post your screenshot

>>55792730
>>55793315
>>55792730
>>55794680
>>55800325
>>55800358
>ITT : NEETS
You do know what virtualization servers mean, don't you, unemployed tards?

>>55803498
don't get me wrong, what you have is probably a fine collection and something cool when friends come over your place
my concern was more about games and tv series being the definition of time waste

>>55804915
How does virt/docker serve any purpose?
You fags like to throw it out like it matters out side of the workstations or high end server environments

>>55791885
Because a terabyte of storage is cheaper than a fucking server you dumb fucking piece of shit.

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I don't want to put my picture books in the cloud

>Video games
>Storing cache data for 3D applications like Maya and C4D.
>Movies and TV shows that I can watch offline.

Having large amounts of storage is a nice thing.

I have 16tb because premiere pro and photoshop, big ass cache. You're probaly a freetard who only uses linux. Dualboot masterrace

/thread

>>55805629
And my workstation is a server. I dont want to make a seperate server. My pc uses like 300 watt on idle.

>>55804915
Stop trying to be a faggot

>>55804915
DA CLOUD meme is still a meme even if you set up DA CLOUD yourself.