How much data do you generate per year? I am not including things that you download (music, movies, applications, etc). I’m referring to things you produce yourself… This could be pictures, movies, documents – anything that if you lost it, it would be gone forever. Almost a year ago I got an Infrant ReadyNAS NV, and plugged in some drives to create a 800GB Raid 5 network attached storage. Right now I’m up to 9% (around 81 GB)....
The fire alarm went off last night, and instead of being a quick leave-the-building-shut-off-the-alarm-go-back routine, an impressive array of firetrucks (complete with a ladder being raised to the roof of our building) greeted us outside. Thankfully it didn’t turn into anything serious. Apparently there was a gas leak on the eighth floor (Ann & I are on the sixth), so they brought in fans to try to clear everything out. However something jumped out at me as we were waiting for everything to clear – in case of a real fire, we’d be pretty screwed....