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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/irrfin on 2024-01-15 06:37:34+00:00.
I have 16000 songs I legally obtained through college network server and something they called Napster back in the day. I kept it going from hard drive to hard drive and now I have them on a SSD in my new car. It was worth the trouble, I almost gave up when all the streaming services took off.
I have 100gb of science and math textbooks, test prep, education resources, ect and I’ve never read any of them as far as know. I have obscure books about all sort of odd topics. And I only remember because my 1.5tb is dying. Like taking all the treasure off a doomed ship before it’s lost under the ocean for eternity. How month can I keep this going?
I have my pictures saved on memory cards and several HDD, 3 different paid web services, what am I doing? I should downsize this but I don’t want to risk loosing anything. I think I have an issue.
I have files from our first Mac Performa 660 that my brother broke and I can’t get into because they’re locked on something called “At Ease”; a user system that I need help finding a way into so I can access my late 1990s school work, creative writing and more. (If anyone has an idea of how to open the files, I’ll take any leads).
I’ve been able to save all my digital course work from college, I might even still have the hard drive somewhere in my stuff. I have my wife’s 18 years old laptop because I am going to take out the hard drive and download her pictures, but I just haven’t gotten around to it yet….
My one regret was getting a virus on my first laptop in 1999 and wiping away a year’s s worth of digital timeline in a continuous streak of hording.
My name is Irrfin and I’m a dataholic.