For a piracy-oriented community I’m surprised this isn’t discussed as much.

Do you ever store media, or delete them after watching? How do you store them?

I personally have 12TB worth of hard drives (3x4TB) in a JBOD configuration. Been wanting to upgrade my hard drives (they’re 6 years old) but I’m still a little skeptical of the helium drives and whether they will last…

  • SpringStorm@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Games and softwares: I store the installers, delete if I don’t like it

    Music: store them all, even if some songs in an album isn’t my cup of tea

    Videos: want to save all of them, but my storage is pretty small in the first place, so I pick the ones I really like

    Ebooks: only downloaded a few, but still save them all

    Mangas: usually save unless I don’t really like it or no reason to reread

  • visnudeva@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    I only store “rare old hard to get stuff that I loved a lot” but I just delete everything else after watching so I never have more than a 1TB drive half empty from which I also delete what I downloaded but will never watch after some time. All of that on my Raspberry pi home server with Emby and CasaOs.

  • nevernevermore@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    4x 18TB (ironwolf)

    2x 250GB (970 evos) SSD cache

    SHR (1 disk redundancy)

    in a synology DS918+ NAS,

    gives me ~47TB usable space in one enclosure

    and

    4x 8TB (ironwolf)

    RAID 5 (1 disk redundancy)

    in a OWC Mercury Elite Pro Quad

    gives me ~25TB usable space in the other

    I have about 15TB of media stored, I like 4K HDR DV content and tend to rewatch stuff a lot. I don’t store anything that I have access to on a streaming service (unless it’s not available in 4K)