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Digital clutter: Learning to let go and stop hoarding terabytes

by @stammy paulstamatiou.com published 2023-04-1510 min read

Learning to let go and stop hoarding terabytes: Sharing my journey of downsizing my digital storage, letting go of terabytes of data, and moving away from a NAS setup. I decided to use an external Thunderbolt SSD enclosure and an M.2 NVMe SSD to store my data locally. For cloud backup and encryption, I used the Arq…

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