• Ashy
    480·
    9 months ago

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

    • TOR-anon1
      112·
      9 months ago

      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.

      • Ashy
        290·
        9 months ago9 months ago

        My current raw capacity is at 160 TB.

        • JamesBean
          170·
          9 months ago9 months ago

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

          • randombullet
            70·
            9 months ago

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

          • Ashy
            50·
            9 months ago

            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.

            • Victor
              30·
              9 months ago

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

              • Ashy
                60·
                9 months ago

                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.

                • I Cast Fist
                  30·
                  9 months ago

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

                  • Ashy
                    70·
                    9 months ago

                    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.

      • Salix
        30·
        9 months ago9 months ago

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

    • Random_Character_A
      50·
      9 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.