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…
You can also look at [email protected] for this kind of questions. It was full of good advice on reddit and I’m sure it will be equivalent on Lemmy.
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.
This is the way. No point spending hundreds of dollars keeping up with the data imo.
No media get’s deleted unless it’s redundant. All stored at my home NAS, currently with 42TB capactiy.
damn how’s your NAS configured? How many drives do you have?
jbod. It’s 2x6TB in the NAS and then USB drives (2x 5TB, 1x18TB and a 2TB SSD for music).
JBOD?
You’re a brave soul. Best of luck to you
Since I mainly download music, yes I store it forever. Too much good stuff just disappears online especially stuff I listen to.
As for shows and movies, I download and save more obscure stuff, but I really watch TV/movies anyways so.
I currently have a 18tb drive that I got for like $140.
Same here, but nostalgy has pushed me to hold on that media dubbed in the language I grew with. I now live on a different country with same language, but the dub is way different.
Hard to find old 70’s, 80’s stuff
Thats a totally a fair thing to store, dubs of different languages tend to be worse preserved.
that’s a really good price. was it used?
New, was some price fuck up iirc
I used to store all my music on an HDD but the more, I thought about it. The less I did it. Still have about 68GB of music but won’t continue doing so. Don’t really keep movies or TV Shows stored, as I know, I will watch them once and then never again - Same thing for games.
Perhaps I will in the future when I can actually afford decent HDD/SSD’s. I’m curious how other do it.
Storage space isn’t as big a problem for music - for me, tv shows are the main issue.
I like to rewatch shows a lot in the background - I like having The Office or How I Met Your Mother on while i’m doing chores or something, so I have a lot of shows stored. It takes a lot of HDD space, but I also don’t have to pay for 3 different streaming services just to watch 3 shows
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
I store my media, on mirrored disks the ones I scanned myself (to much work, mainly music), series are kept, some mirrored, some not. Movies are kept until I need more space. (I have about 6T mirrored and 8T unmirrored space for all data, including my backups, pictures,…
Anything I can download is pretty expendable, unless I really like it/it took a lot of time to get or find.
I have around 24TB of drives. 6TB Home Theater NAS made of HDD and Pi4. 2x 4TB as a backup for my NAS and some other files. 4TB SSD in my PC (78 games installed) and in my PS4 (150ish games installed). Important games I backed up, all movies, shows and documentaries are backed up, plus my files (photos, documents, pirated software, etc). Plus most important things like family photos and documents are backed up online (encrypted) and offline on sd card and flash drive.
Considering expanding of my collection… Every show and movie I enjoy is added to my NAS. Same goes for games, but I tend to buy them when they’re cheap or I’m so excited that I preorder. I don’t play that much anymore. Last time I preordered Hogwards Legacy and before ME Legendary Edition.
i own stock in western digital (meaning i have stacks of hard drives and a dock)
I don’t have tons of digital media so it’s stored on 2 4TB portable HDD’s.
I only regularly download and keep things that either aren’t available on streaming or are removed from streaming services.
But since the writers strikes I download most things I want to watch as the streamers aren’t getting any more of my money until they pay writers what they’re worth.
This is not to be taken as offensive just curious.
how does the writer strike change anything? youre still pirating are you not regardless?! I’m confused on how your ethics/ morals applied when they weren’t on strike.
Until the strike I was subscribed to Apple TV, Paramount+, Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime so I don’t pirate unless what I want isn’t available on physical disc or streaming.
If a streaming service removes original content because they don’t want to pay residuals I’ll torrent it.
Likewise anything new that comes out during the strike I’ll torrent. Once they start paying the writers fairly and guarantee protections agains AI for writers and actors I’ll be more than happy to start giving them my money again. But as things stand the studios pocket 99% of the money hence the strikes.
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I only have a two bay NAS with 10 TB of
RAMstorage which I filled years ago lol.Currently depending on solutions like Cloudstream and Stremio (honorable mention to Kodi with streaming add-ons).
10 TB of RAM
I hope you mean hard disk space… otherwise I’m trying to imagine how many sticks of RAM you have there :)
Already corrected it 😅
10TB of RAM? Surely that’s a typo?
nah dude’s got 20 sticks of this haha
Bruh
Data centres are wild
I keep everything I download as long as it’s of sufficient quality on many large HDD’s. Most of my media is then served through Jellyfin. Considering the state of the internet recently I think it’s important to download what you care about before it becomes unavailable.
Do you have all your hard drives connected to your computer/NAS or are they in cold storage? I have 6 HDDs/SSDs combined on my computer and no more available SATA/M2 slots…
Not all are connected, and I don’t think it would be wise to do so in the long run anyway if I keep trying to preserve data like I am. Eventually I’ll have a proper backup system and a dedicated NAS.
Synology 4 bay with SHR1 (1 disk failure) 12TB usable space.
With some USB disks lying around with unimportant data.
For me personally, I only keep things I find worth rewatching, so about 50% I delete after. Same with e-books. Games I don’t really pirate (or only pirate them to see if I can run them on my computer). Usually I buy them on Steam and that’s good enough, even though sometimes you lose access to them. I tend to not go back to older games.
Given only 24Mbps of download speed split between everything in one household, keeping things likely to be rewatched backed up not only saves bandwidth, but also makes having a 4K TV somewhat worthwhile.
