what do you do when you've got too much data?

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2005-01-13 05:13am

Answer with the first thing that pops into your mind.

It's a simple problem but I'm curious as to how other people on this forum would approach it.

EDIT: Assume the data you keep on this drive is already compressed as far as it'll go, zip files, properly encoded music and video ect. Also assume that you have some spare cash available for buying a new drive should you decide to go with that option.

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2005-01-13 05:17am

Start deleting, generally, I only ever have about 4 or 5 games on the computer at any one time, and the one that doesnt get played gets obliterated and that usually frees up a couple of gigabytes. I'm a tight-wad student, see?

Post by **Gandalf** » 2005-01-13 05:18am

I start deleting things.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2005-01-13 05:18am

Buy a bigger HardDrive!

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2005-01-13 05:36am

The sole reason why my hard drive space disappears is anime. So off to burning them on DVD-Rs it is.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2005-01-13 05:44am

Deleating, but thankfully, a 300GB drive will soon fix all that+ a 74GB drive, and my current 80GB one.

You see, I like game movies

Robert Walper · Post by **Robert Walper** » 2005-01-13 05:52am

Spyder wrote:Answer with the first thing that pops into your mind.

It's a simple problem but I'm curious as to how other people on this forum would approach it.

EDIT: Assume the data you keep on this drive is already compressed as far as it'll go, zip files, properly encoded music and video ect. Also assume that you have some spare cash available for buying a new drive should you decide to go with that option.

Catagorize, sort and analyse all data and information. Purge all irrelevent data and infromation. Retain only that which is useful and necessary. Create physical backups of valueable data and information. Assimilate a new harddrive.

Repeat as often as necessary.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2005-01-13 05:54am

Cleanse, Purge, Kill!

"Oh FUCK, only 200MB?! Delete! What's this? Delete! Never use that... delete! Delete, delete, delete..."

Seggybop · Post by **Seggybop** » 2005-01-13 06:09am

Generally, delete. It's not like I'm going to watch 50-episode anime series more than once. Generally I only keep stuff long enough to have a chance to give it to anyone else who might have interest in it. After that, it gets replaced.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-01-13 07:27am

i like having backup archives in case i ever lose anything or need to free some space. so i go the burning route.

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Post by **Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman** » 2005-01-13 07:36am

Start burning. blank CDs are cheap, aren't they?

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2005-01-13 09:25am

Go buy another 200Gb SATA drive.

Losonti Tokash · Post by **Losonti Tokash** » 2005-01-13 09:52am

I start burning things, but not onto CDs. I didn't know how big games were now until I saw that C&C Generals was taking up almost 2 gigs. I remember when PCGamer took points off a game because it took almost a gigabyte of space. God.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2005-01-13 10:09am

A combination of 1 and 2, since I usually have lots of games installed eating up hard disk space so uninstalling one or two is a no brainer, and also stuff like big downloads (ISO images that I've been lazy to burn). Recently I got a DVD burner, and I still have like 48 blank dvds left, I can fit 7 cd images or 4.5 gb in each one, which is pretty cool.

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2005-01-13 11:27am

Start burning, then I prune, then I burn some more, then I buy a new harddrive, load everything back up ... and then 1 year later (depending) rinse and repeat.

Old Plympto · Post by **Old Plympto** » 2005-01-13 11:43am

I would burn them. Burn them all!!!!!

Seriously, this has saved my ass a couple of times not just for my machine (and other computers belonging to family & friends close to me) when the HDD kicked the bucket.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2005-01-13 11:48am

I had this problem before I got a new computer, since there was only about 5 gigabytes on the hard drive, and then, I just uninstalled games I didn't play very often, or acessories I didn't need. I never had to resort to uninstalling a game I played a lot, since I only had about 3 or 4 on the computer.

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2005-01-13 12:21pm

Deleting useless junk usualy does the trick for me, but if that doesn't work burning some things worth keeping around would be the next step.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2005-01-13 12:22pm

I generally delete.

Terr Fangbite · Post by **Terr Fangbite** » 2005-01-13 12:47pm

I delete which I don't use and burn which I use occasionally. For instance, I just cleared several gigs of freeware games by burning them to cd when I decide to play them again (since many of them are hard to find). Most of the time though, I just delete the junk I've downloaded but didn't like (programs, wallpapers, pictures, shows), and empty the internet files (My sister had over 3 gigs once in temporary internet files).

If that still gives me trouble, its time to break out the wallet and get another drive.

namdoolb · Post by **namdoolb** » 2005-01-13 01:57pm

Delete.

Anything I want to back up is done at the earliest possible opportunity, As a general rule I don't *wait* to run out of HDD space before I start burning stuff to cd.

As for upgrading... I have a hard time tracking what's on my system as it is, I don't actualy need any more space.

Vohu Manah · Post by **Vohu Manah** » 2005-01-13 02:11pm

Combination of backing up and deleting. Backup what I want to keep, and delete everything I'm not really using.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2005-01-13 02:41pm

DELETED!

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2005-01-13 04:51pm

The last time i was running outta HD space Zip drives where considered the way of the future,i have dual 120 Gig hard drives, it'll be a while be a while before I run low on space.

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2005-01-14 01:13am

I usually burn. But then again haveing a terrabyte available for storage is nice too.

StarDestroyer.Net BBS

what do you do when you've got too much data?

You sit infront of your computer and uh-oh, you're running out of disk space. What do you do?

what do you do when you've got too much data?

Re: The "what do you do when you've got too much data&q