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To: CurlyDave
I remember when a 5 meg hd was a thing to have. A friend and I bought 10 gig hard drives together -- the first ones we each had ever owned. He asked me: "How are we ever going to fill these up?"

When I helped my sister pick out her first pc in the late 80's I told her the same thing about her 20MB drive. I said you'll NEVER fill that up.

30 posted on 12/19/2016 2:19:03 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC

Speaking of hard drives, ...

About a year ago I had a backup program start backing up some files under the Windows\user directory. It was backing up onto a 3 TB 3.0 USB and a 3 TB external NAS. The program backed up everything. I wasn’t paying attention until a year later when I started getting error messages that the disks were full.

I started deleting the files via the Windows file explorer on the 3.0 USB. Windows first had to index the files to be deleted. That took a week of the i7 laptop running 24/7. When it finally finished indexing, it indicated that there were 39 MILLION files marked for deletion. I clicked okay and it took a week running 24/7 to finally delete them all.

On the other drive, I deleted by using a different backup program that could be set to delete old files. So, I set it to delete but not copy. I had to do it in sections as there were about the same number — 39 Million — files to be deleted. This was on the NAS drive through my i5 desktop. It also took a couple of weeks to delete them.


37 posted on 12/19/2016 2:31:27 PM PST by TomGuy
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