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What has been your best financial move in life? (lemm.ee)
submitted 10 months ago by shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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[โ€“] Spider89@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How so?

[โ€“] cali_ash@lemmy.wtf 48 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Well, for the amount of money I spend on hard drives and other hardware I could subscribe to Netflix for about 30 years.

[โ€“] Spider89@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

How much disk space do you need?

I have a simple 500GD HDD ($25) and a 230GB (?).

I also have $120 worth of DVD and CD for ~$60 thanks to Goodwill

Fits nicely.

[โ€“] cali_ash@lemmy.wtf 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

My current raw capacity is at 160 TB.

[โ€“] JamesBean@kbin.social 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Wild! I've got about 40 TB myself, and have never come across someone with more... let alone four times more.

[โ€“] randombullet@programming.dev 7 points 10 months ago

I'm at 208RB raw, but actually only have 120TB in active use

[โ€“] cali_ash@lemmy.wtf 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

40 TB was my previous capacity and based around a really cheap 2 bay NAS with a mess of external USB drives attached and no backup ... and is now pretty much full.

So I ordered a 12 bay NAS (with, for now 6x 20TB disks) to bascially replace the entire old setup. I'm also planning to put the new setup in RAID 5 or 6, so it will only have an effective storage of 80-100 TB.

[โ€“] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The f do you store on all that space? Raw blu-ray rips?

[โ€“] cali_ash@lemmy.wtf 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just a lot of stuff. TV Shows/Series take up by far the most space. For example, just the Simpsons in 1080p (h264) takes over 500GB.

[โ€“] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do you actually watch all of the stuff you download, or is it more like a digital hoard?

[โ€“] cali_ash@lemmy.wtf 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, that would be literally impossible. The total of playtime of what I downloaded in the last year is over 1 year and 7 months (+5 months if you include music).

So the majority is just ... archiving.

[โ€“] TH1NKTHRICE@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why?

[โ€“] cali_ash@lemmy.wtf 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Everybody needs a hobby.

[โ€“] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Creating a legacy, eh. Keep doing the good work.

[โ€“] morriscox@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Would Tdarr help?

[โ€“] Salix@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Don't forget some people run RAID, which means you need duplicates of the HDD. That really adds up.

[โ€“] random_character_a@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

My only pain is destroying all those VCD/SVCDs and shitload of DVD-Rs full of .avi files.

All garbage when watching from modern high def TVs.