Spent this whole day digging through my main 2Tb data hard drive. It's virtually an Augean stables: years upon years of sloppy backups with duplicates upon duplicates upon duplicates. Backups with backups inside of backups. Cultural layers that allegedly ascend to Cro-Magnon times, but dating is fuzzy in some cases.
Deleted 1Tb of excessive data. Duplicates, movies, TV shows (almost 200Gb of The Big Bang Theory).
Thousands of books that I collected "because I might need them". I figured that I probably won't need books I never even knew I have for the last 10 years. Music albums I never listened.
Now there's some semblance of order. And huge 2Tb chunk of data that felt like burden (for example, I have to choose OS that is able to work with this particular file system and do it well, because I don't have enough spare space to maneuver with this big data chunk) now feels lighter and manageable.
I asked myself how much data I really need? What is is essential and what I just happen to keep for years? Turns out I don't really need that much data. Even in case of digital apocalypse I won't be able to read these thousands of books and won't watch these movies I didn't really like in the first place.