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Is it weird that I don't have GBs of my own personal files/data? I get if you have movies/tv shows or whatever, that's different. I just don't know what personal data you could possibly have that would amount to GBs...

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As a parent you go through a period of time - when your kid is young - that you take photos and videos of EVERYTHING that they do. Its silly now that i look back. Certainly it is important to capture moments, but to over-document everything is silly...now i take minimal photos/videos, and just be present in the moment. Oh, and my data accumulation has precipitously gone down since i've mellowed out. But, yeah family photos/videos adds up like crazy.

I have 3 kids and still don't have more than a terabyte of data.

Photos and videos. All My email. I as a musician have about 40 gigabytes of personal recordings that I have used for auditions and pre selection rounds in competitions. All in all it is about 800gb and growing.

Since my son was born the amount of photos and shitty quality videos that I backup is staggering.

Ah okay, fair enough! Guess I just don't really have that much personal data but it makes sense in your situation.

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