Digital hoarding

[330T]

Not sure if any of you have seen the show hoarding Buried Alive or American Pickers, but its effing spooky what some of these people live like.  So i was sitting around watching this show with a friend of mine and I was joking about how much useless crap these people cling on to and dont let it go.

It was all fun and games untill my dear friend pointed out that I'm a digital hoarding.  She pointed out that i have over 700 DVD/Blu-Rays stored on my server, Almost 3,000 other video files, 5,000 MP3s, and that I sent all my childhood pictures out to get scanned and cataloged and I now save all of those on my system as well..

So suddenly i got to thinking, OMG i'm a digital hoarder.  I'm no different than those people holding on to scraps of paper, used egg cartons.  Well no different mentally I cant make myself delete a movie, picture, or even an old PC game in the remote chance I may at sometime want to load up a NES emulator and play one of my 1,400 ROMS...

Am i alone in this or are some of you digital horders too?

[Plague]

I have 2 Tb of TV, Movies, pictures, games, app & etc. so I guess I am with you. 

[Cra2hgirl]

At least Digital Hording is more earth friendly and doesn't take up rooms in your house.

[Infamousd]

yeah I'm closing in on 6 TB of digital crap myself, and it isn't necessarily earth friendly when you consider how much electricity is used in running the server/computer you have that stuff stored on. 

[330T]

yeah I'm closing in on 6 TB of digital crap myself, and it isn't necessarily earth friendly when you consider how much electricity is used in running the server/computer you have that stuff stored on. 

wow the news groups have been treating you well....  Agree this not the most earth friendly, but I do what i can to get my wattage as low as i can.  Atom Processor, WD green drives, spin down drives after 15 min of idle... my home server uses about 45w at idle, and 320w when all drives are w/r

[Cyphis]

Just a little nitpick here, but "hording" is spelled 'hoarding'.

Thanks.   

[330T]

Just a little nitpick here, but "hording" is spelled 'hoarding'.

Thanks.   

thx fixed.. spelling was never my forte, guess thats why i went to engineering school

[spyware89]

My name is spyware... and i am an addict. To digital/technology hoarding. I have gotten better about deleting files. I beat a single player game that I didn't like too much, I delete the iso, still have almost 1 TB of movies, and over 10 gb of music, and i don't listen to music at all... there is only about 700 mb of music on my ipod and that is the only music I listen to.
Over spring break though when I was at my parents house from college, I found a drawer in my old room FILLED with 5.25" floppy drives and at least 300 5.25" floppy discs... I'm 20, I have never even used a 5.25" floppy drive. I can count the times I remember having to use a 3.25 floppy on my hands. Load raid drivers in XP, get some old dos games to CD... I have NOOO clue where I got all those drives... or why I kept them. Also found about 30 Floppy drive ribbon cables, I have never even put a floppy drive in one of my computers. Found a few tape drives too, minus tapes, and a stack of ZIP discs and a drive with a parallel port... again no clue where they crawled from.

[Renegade]

I try to delete but I have like close to 30 gig of music, 80 gig of music video's (that grows daily), Over 1tb filled on the file server.   I did finnially junk all my floppy's while back but I still have games that were for old Pentium systems on CD still and more.    Heck I do still have floppy's.  I got Amiga Dos 3.1, and a copy of MS Dos 6 on floppy still lol.  Actually I got 5 1/4 crap still forgot about the c-64 system crated up in the garage.

[Action]

I am not really a digital hoarder other than music but then again I have always been a music fan.  But, I have to admit I am a hardware hoarder.  I have way to many older computers and such.  Some I will never get rid of for sentimental reasons but I have no excuse for all the old first pentium systems... lol