Okay, that's something I didn't know about. Disk Cleanup shouldn't accidentally delete some Cinema 4D file I've forgotten about and haven't checked in 2 years, but might need one day, right?
It's designed to delete from temporary locations, there shouldn't be anything important in there but if in doubt you should be able to get an idea with SpaceMonger or check the application-specific temp folders. I don't use Cinema 4D so the only comparison I can make is the Premiere Pro temp folders, the path for these can be found in the application preferences.
Even if I don't plan on playing too much games, stuff like Forza Horizon 4 and 5 (if I'm even able to run the latter), which I'm planning to play, will take up some space. I've thought about an extra 1TB SSD, I don't need it to be super-fast, right? Would something like a Samsung 870 QVO suffice? Mind you, I might want to reuse the drive I buy in another build once the time comes for a new build, as a game storage device, of course.
I have a QVO for my videos and it's fine, however I'd suggest waiting that little bit longer to get the EVO. I kind of regret buying the QVO, the price was right at the time and the performance is OK but being a QVO limits what I can do with it if I got a replacement. It's like I was saying when
@Eye-Q was looking at SSDs, in my mind it pays to consider how you would re-use it later on.
Nitpicking aside, the QVO would probably be fine.
A note for any MS Store games (like Forza Horizon 4), when you view the OS disk with SpaceMonger it will show the games installed there even if they're actually stored elsewhere, it's just a bug and in this case you'll find that the total size of the SSD exceeds its capacity!
I've heard of Robocopy, I used it once when I had problems copying files, thanks for the tip! Funny thing, I thought it stood for robot copy, not robust copy, lol.
I used to think it was Robot Copy too, it makes sense. It's incredibly handy to have a batch file or PowerShell script with many lines to backup files to different locations.
I was thinking Linux, but Windows would work as well, for the aforementioned reason. However, the movie collection is fungible, and the photo collection takes less than 100GB, so reformatting the said drive (moving the photos elsewhere beforehand, of course) wouldn't be the end of the world. We'll see. But do I use normal, consumer-grade Windows or some Server Edition?
That's fine, just keep in mind that with a Linux server you can't just lift a disk and put it straight into a Windows machine to read it. Just regular Windows Professional is fine, that's all I use.
While contemplating the NAS build, I thought a PCIe RAID controller card would be pretty useful. Thanks for the model name, this info will definitely come useful!
You're welcome, it's nice for the amount of time I've spent on this stuff to be useful sometimes. Those cards are very good and so far this one has been extremely reliable. They use this type of mini-SAS splitter, which for the H310 at least works perfectly fine with SATA disks.
With a bit of patience 8 disks can look quite neat. I have no patience and it still looks decent enough. This is in a Fractal Design R5, a good home server case without going crazy. Space at the front for the 5.25" bay and an LTO4 tape drive I haven't used for years because it's too loud.
I'll shortly be replacing the motherboard with the one in this machine. The cards will swap straight over and it'll all hopefully just work. Hopefully all of my other disks in this machine will work fine in the new build too, although I'm going to uninstall all MS Store games first. Steam games should be fine.