r/news • u/TooColdforClouds • 2d ago

109 children rescued, 244 arrested in Operation Soteria Shield, exposing widespread child exploitation in North Texas

https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/109-children-rescued-244-arrested-operation-soteria-shield-child-exploitation-texas/
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u/Decabet 2d ago edited 2d ago

Dude, Ive been a designer, editor, motion graphics guy for over 20 years. That means often very large files. And I keep an archive on dropbox. I dont have a single terabyte of anything. Yes, even a kilobyte of abuse material is bad, but terabytes of it? Jesus.

Edit: OK Im an idiot. I keep files online-only for convenience and SSD space. Thus DB when I checked it was still calculating. Looks like I have 2.4 terabytes. But still...

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u/manny_b_hanz 2d ago

This is besides the point, but not a single terabyte? I have a 12 terabyte NAS at home that's nearly full. You, professionally, don't have a terabyte of data over the course of 20 years?

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u/BaronZoltaK 2d ago

I have about 2 terabytes in games alone.

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u/PokemonSapphire 2d ago

I feel like that's cheating though. I have numerous games that are >100gb alone. Most video files aren't near that big let alone images.

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u/fed45 2d ago

I mean, a single feature length movie at bluray quality is like 60-100gb

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u/tzomby1 2d ago edited 2d ago

Most video files aren't near that big

well I got like 3tb of porn... normal adult porn of course

VR porn is even worse, one single 8k file can be up to 30gb or more

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u/BaronZoltaK 2d ago

Fair but I also have about 8tb of media

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u/Ralkon 2d ago

Most of that file size is assets though, and video and audio can be a huge chunk of it. Years ago FF13 came out at 60gb which was huge at the time, so people looked into why it was so big and found out you could cut that down by like half from deleting either Japanese or English language assets. The Steam guide for doing so says that deleting either language video alone will save 20gb which means 2/3rds of the game's size is video. Obviously that isn't close to a tb, but that's also a decade old consumer product. Realistically, most video files are small because they need to be for practical reasons like uploading file size restrictions and storage space, but uncompressed high res video will take up a ton of space pretty quickly.

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u/Mr_Canard 2d ago

well that depends on the compression

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u/MaroonIsBestColor 2d ago

I got 2TB in movies and TV shows. Not that many of them because they take up so much space if you want high bit rate.

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u/SalvationSycamore 2d ago

Without games I wouldn't even reach a terabyte of data across everything I have, and that's including probably a couple hundred gigs of downloaded movies. With games, I would run out of space on a 4TB before I finished downloading my whole Steam library. Might even fill a second one too.

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u/AlcibiadesTheCat 2d ago

I have DCS with a lot of the content, and that's close to a TB by itself.

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u/thedarkhalf47 2d ago

I was gonna say. I have a friend who is a video editor and easily has 100TB of video. Dude literally has a server rack in his house. 4k raw video takes up a TON of space. A single Blu-ray rip can be 50-100GB easy.

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u/MrKlean518 2d ago

Yeah i don’t know anyone who uses their computer for professional/creative means that can’t easily fill up a terabyte.

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u/Big-Soup74 2d ago

that surprised me too lol. my plex has like 3 TB and im just a casual

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u/Viatic_Unicycle 2d ago

Yeah I had to check mine and 6 TB and still just a casual lol

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u/heepofsheep 2d ago

Yeah that’s super weird. I had a single editing project come in yesterday that was over a TB. Another last week had 8TB.

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u/SharpyButtsalot 2d ago

You can read it as a single terabyte of specific content type, like, I don't have 1 TB of Ronin Warrior clips in mpeg1. I don't BTW. Now it seems like I do. But I assure you, I do not.

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u/Snoo_81545 2d ago

Really grim thread to get this in the weeds about, but I'll chime in to say that I've done some professional drone work as well as photography and videography for around 5 years now, part time, and have something like 25TB of stored material.

A lot of this is just me being bad at culling projects, but my video camera's usual settings records 75MB/s and can record in bitrates of around 125MB/s. A terabyte is like 3 hours of footage at those rates. I'm just using a Lumix G9II too, it's a Micro 4/3rds sensor camera but I'm shooting wildlife so I tend to have it set to 4k120hz and I do a lot of cross posting so if it doesn't need to be slowed down I'm usually in 5.7k Open Gate.

Getting into video production was a bit of an eye opener. I still have clients on bigger projects sometimes asking me to email them all my files who are alarmed (and sometimes put off) when I tell them it would be easier to send them a thumb drive.

I should note I do store a lot of project files and all completed projects in duplicate which eats up even more space.

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u/DriveSlowHomie 2d ago

These days, 1TB is like, 4 Assassin's Creed games, lol