Well, a 256GB of storage in flash drive form can be obtained for $31 or less. So it is very possible to slowly save a copy of your data from the most important to the least. (Or to move 256GB of your least important data off at a time). The data curation community is a great resource for figuring out how to organize things to keep found things found
I went there once, on Reddit, and they are indeed over PB for some years now.
I myself already have 50T and it feels like a bottomless pit
I’m at single digit TBs and dreading that a drive breaks and I need a new one. Not that I have a lot of free space either.
Well, a 256GB of storage in flash drive form can be obtained for $31 or less. So it is very possible to slowly save a copy of your data from the most important to the least. (Or to move 256GB of your least important data off at a time). The data curation community is a great resource for figuring out how to organize things to keep found things found