Harddrive Is Probably Full
The author explores the phenomenon of hard drives consistently reaching full capacity regardless of storage size increases. The piece suggests that this is a universal experience driven by both human behavior and the entropic nature of digital file accumulation.
Why it matters
This observation touches on the psychological and practical challenges of digital data management in an era of massive storage availability.
I currently have 17 GB free space on my root drive, out of 0.47 TB usable space, that's 3% free space.
I also have an additional harddrive installed, 12 TB, it has 140 GB free, which may seem a lot but it's actually only about 1%.
Your harddrive is probably pretty full too. Maybe not as crammed, but odds are it's probably closer to full than empty. I ran a poll on mastodon and approximately half of the respondents, counting 81 people in total, had a harddrive that was more than 75% full.
Pretty much every time in my life I can think of, my storage has been pretty full, to the point where I'd have to regularly find and clean up files.
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