How to effectively dig through terabytes of files?

Question

Data storage

There is an archive of many files and folders, where there are, like photos, text and other text files. What is the most efficient way to search these files for information? How to store this data?

Answer 1

There are various software for indexing text and other information based on full-text engines.
For the desktop version, there is DocFetcher (with a separate pro version). There seems to be a server option as well.
If you want to cook on your own, then you can take Apache Solr, Apache Tika.