how did it begin?
My first hoard were screenshots from video games, that was when I was 17 orso
I usually didn’t have internet a lot of the time so I started downloading music by yt to mp3, at some point I changed all my library to 320kbps and there’s no way for me to stop downloading because I have a lot of music that’s not on spotify and has only low res versions on youtube. On the other side I do backups of my projects and stuff
19 now, just wanted to collect anime, and my brother wanted to collect music. I had recently upgraded my gaming pc from AM4 to AM5 so I used my old mobo and cpu for the new server and we both went in 50/50 for 18tb drives from serverpartsdeals and now are sitting nicely with 4 18tb ones and 1 8tb one. 1 18tb being used for parity using unraid. Only have about 4tb left as I started collecting switch games, tv, movies, and backups.
its an expensive hobby so I dont think a lot of young people would have the money or confidence to start with data hoarding
When i was ~7 years old i’ve started to collect icons from random websites. I remember that i copied the shell32.dll from the windows vista laptop of my uncle in a thumbdrive and later used it in XP. Now i partially conserved this collection.
I am 25 and building servers and my NAS is a huge part of my hobby and job.
I started as soon as my Dad got an internet connection. We have 1mbps down and it took eons to get anything downloaded. My dad also had a fuck ton of DVDs as he was big into home theater. I learned what an HTPC was and started messing around with an old media player called Boxee. Convinced my dad to get me a 1TB external HDD and started ripping everything to drives.
After I ran out of DVDs I started looking elsewhere for more media to add. Learned about torrenting. Did it wrong the first time, got a letter from the ISP. Then learned to do it right and now I have a 85TB server holding all my media on a Plex server.
I ran out of space on the 1TB HDD and it turned into 2 external drives. 2 Turned into 3. 3 Turned into a NAS with 12TB. That cheap 12TB NAS turned into a FreeNAS server and on, and on, and on.
I also hold onto any documentation and digital manuals and drivers I come across for things I make or computers I build. I also backup my entire families photos onto my servers now too.
SIDE NOTE: Is anyone here looking into the 45 Drives HL15? I got a pre-order in a while ago and I will have it next weekish. Anyone else here checking it out?