All I know is that once meaningful data/content loses its pull much more quickly than discs lose their data.
For example, I'll take (this happened yesterday) spending time seeing the youngest grandchild taking first steps letting go of the swimming pool ladder rail - with looks and facial expressions of infinite wonder peppered with mild fear and/or indecision - over digging through formerly meaningful "content" that at best might occasionally evoke a few moments of "oh yeah... *that*...".
In a way, storage solutions provide ways to put a lot of effort into saving content for a person we'll no longer be anyway. We forget that although the content won't change, we will. We would have to save the current state of ourselves alongside instances of same-time-frame content, then be able to reload that state, and *then* dive into said content to fully appreciate it.
But maybe there's a way to sufficiently categorize "who I am right now" in a way that revisiting it could approach "reloading it unto becoming it"? It would take a lot of imagination and denial (of current state), perhaps something akin to "The Method" in acting? So one would first digest a file containing a sufficiently robust description of "self" at the time, and said "method" would seemingly "make it so"... and than one would quickly digest the All Important Content before doubts about truly being the former instantiation of self started setting in to wreck the, well.. *delusional* party....
It's comprickated, this individuality thang! :-)
All I know is that once meaningful data/content loses its pull much more quickly than discs lose their data.
Yeah, that's why I'll stick with blu-rays only with "long term" stuff... and it's surprisingly difficult finding stuff worthy of that name! Also, 25 GBs is way more than I thought.
In general, with the modern version of "memories" (a shitload of photos one will never see in their lifetime), there's definitely some part of looking/traveling back for whatever reason, which I do myself too.
Shoot, thinking about it, nostalgia is literally temporarily "rolling back" into a previous version of self. That's quite wild.
I don't take many "modern memories"; at most I scrape the bottom of the disk into a directory whenever a big change happens to my computer.
The real gold instead for me are my projects, which are both memories and past references, a trampoline for new and exciting stuff; that must be why I care so much to document them so heavily, be it with a truckload of comments or whatnot.
You know what, I think I might put all of my projects in the disk, or at least the done (and mostly "old") ones. Yeah, that will do.