The no brainer.........sort of.
This is about purchases you should have given more thought in 2017 to present.
For me it was everything from Sample from Mars.
I like multi format libraries. I created refills, added them to Live's library which has no compression and comes up with errors. All the Kontakt one's I batch compressed. After auditioning the synths I'm not sure I could ever really use them. As for drum samples I probably have duplicates in other libraries. Using 3 formats really used up a lot of drive space.
My second system has 2 separate 1TB storage drives, 500MB drive and one (1tb) actually showed red in Windows. I started thinking I really didn't need this.
Sonar Platinum, W7 Pro 32GB Ram, Intel i7 4790, AsRock Z97 Pro 4, NVidia 750ti, AP2496
Sonar Platinum, W7 Pro, 16GB Ram, AMD FX 6300, Gigabyte GA 970 -UD3 P, nVidia 9800GT, Guitar Port, Terratec EWX 2496