A disk space consuming hobby…
I’ve ended up spending 5.5TB of hard-disk space in the past two months.
There were 35 baseball games I went during the time, missed several games, and video recording of these games consumed 4.8TB. I complied and published 73 video clips whose file sizes became the total of 727GB. So the total became about 5.5TB. Since I have a back-up for the files, it’s actually 11TB.
In the beginning I used a couple of HD camcorders and one 4K camcorder. I had the HD camcorders turned on on tripods in two different places during the games to capture the whole games from the beginning to the end, and used the 4K camcorder to capture scenes here and there, for like 10 seconds each. As a result, the first game consumed “only” 20.3GB. As time went on more 4K camcorders were added, and in the end I had four 4K camcorders captured the whole games from various angles. I checked how much disk space each game consumed, and here is the table. In the end the biggest folder size was 326GB for one game which they played for over 2 hours and a half. Towards the end, it’s about 200GB per game, or 50GB per feed and multiplied by four.
I had thought I prepared well…
Before it started, I upgraded one of the internal hard disks from 5TB to 10TB, and got a 4TB external hard drive for backup. I had thought they were plenty, but I was wrong. The external hard drive was too small to store all of them, and I had to use another one. A couple of days ago I ordered an 8TB external hard drive so that I can move some of the files from the internal hard disk which is also about to fill up.
So, I am actually wondering what the other people do to keep these big files.