Wow ... good for you! That's an impressive amount of space to restore! I've done the purge (probably could use another round!) and it does feel so good. I also am a big fan of EHDs.
I'm such a hoarder, the thought of purging makes me nauseous. I will, however, delete elements in a kit (after I've unzipped it) if I know it's something I will absolutely NEVER use. I lost 2TB of data when I had a hard drive fail, and Crash Plan accidentally deleted my files. I lost a lot of my TLP products, including half of my MPM collections from 2015. Ugh... I do greatly admire those of you that can purge. I wish I could bring myself to do it. I bow to you all!
Purge is a 4 letter word in my world! But I know, I know it's a good thing that I should do. All those buttons...all those flowers...if I only saved a dozen I'd be ok for the various challenges, right? Then delete them before printing....
I do that too @Aerobigirl ... Whenever I unzip a kit I go through all the files & if I immediately know I'll never use something it goes. Sometimes that just means deleting some recolors or sticker versions of things since I can do that easy enough. I started doing that after my first big purge a few years ago. It not only saves a little space, but it gets me thinking about everything in the kit & inspiring me to scrap.