Ladies and gentlemen --
My name is exfat_fingers and I am a data hoarder and a home server enthusiast.
I've been professionally working on data storage for the last 15 years (all over the stack, from device drivers to cloud storage, including the ill-fated Windows Home Server among other things). A few months ago I decided to abandon the big tech world and all its office politics, perverse incentives, appalling privacy practices (and, sadly, good benefits and fat paychecks) and fully devote myself to a life-long hobby and passion of mine - namely, trying to make some sense of all the digital crap accumulated over the years. And, hopefully, help others to do the same and build a business out of it.
(Relevant xkcd.)
I have a list of things I'd like to do to solve the issues I am personally facing with my own environment (to start, having a unified view of all the files across all my devices, external drives and cloud stores) but I obviously would like to avoid building a product for myself and as such I am seeking the community's answers to the following question:
Thinking about management and storage of your personal files, what is the #1 thing that you wish somebody would do/fix/solve for you?
Cheers and thanks for your insight in advance.
exfat_fingers
130 TB raw disk space
1.5 million files
My name is exfat_fingers and I am a data hoarder and a home server enthusiast.
I've been professionally working on data storage for the last 15 years (all over the stack, from device drivers to cloud storage, including the ill-fated Windows Home Server among other things). A few months ago I decided to abandon the big tech world and all its office politics, perverse incentives, appalling privacy practices (and, sadly, good benefits and fat paychecks) and fully devote myself to a life-long hobby and passion of mine - namely, trying to make some sense of all the digital crap accumulated over the years. And, hopefully, help others to do the same and build a business out of it.
(Relevant xkcd.)
I have a list of things I'd like to do to solve the issues I am personally facing with my own environment (to start, having a unified view of all the files across all my devices, external drives and cloud stores) but I obviously would like to avoid building a product for myself and as such I am seeking the community's answers to the following question:
Thinking about management and storage of your personal files, what is the #1 thing that you wish somebody would do/fix/solve for you?
Cheers and thanks for your insight in advance.
exfat_fingers
130 TB raw disk space
1.5 million files