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…

I store contents on 128GB BDXL Blu Ray discs, I like to have all the media easily accessible and don’t want to degrade anytime I play it. If its larger than that I will put in on an SSD.

You can also look at !datahoarder@lemmy.ml for this kind of questions. It was full of good advice on reddit and I’m sure it will be equivalent on Lemmy.

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!selfhosted@lemmy.world can also be pretty useful.

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oh good call, thanks!

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Synology 4 bay with SHR1 (1 disk failure) 12TB usable space.

With some USB disks lying around with unimportant data.

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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.

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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…

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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.

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No I don’t store anything. Can’t be bothered to do so anymore. Had plenty of disk failures in the past so I couldn’t be arsed to rebuild a new archive and let’s be honest how often do you actually rewatch anything.

Nowadays I just stream movies using Kodi and Seren with a torrent cache service like Alldebrid. Haven’t downloaded a movie since.

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Really? You must be pretty unlucky - i don’t want to tempt fate here, but I’ve only had a couple of bad sectors here and there with my hard drives!

I rewatch old shows a lot actually - i like to keep sitcoms playing in the background when doing chores.

Yeah their comment is very subjective lol. I started my Plex server when It’s Always Sunny was taken off Netflix. I’ve had to reset my server a few times so I don’t have total plays, but they’re well past the hundreds.

Chores just aren’t the same without something happening in the background.

And shucked drives make it fairly reasonably priced. I get my 5TB’s for around $35

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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.

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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

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I have Jellyfin set up a with a few drives in jbod on my server. I have the list of what media I have on it stored elsewhere though, and losing one of the drives wouldn’t be a tragedy. I usually stick already used ones into that role. My internet’s that fast that it would only take a week or so to re-download all 8TB. I use Sonarr & Radarr though, so it would also be trivial for me to automate that process.

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Buy cheap 4 bay nas and 3-4 disks (3 disks minimum) and setup raid 5 which will allow one disk failure. If a disk fails, pop disk out, put new one in (equivalent size or larger) and it will rebuild.

You could probably try build one using normal pc hardware and freenas software, but I personally find a purpose built nas operating system less of a headache and fairly cost effective

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i’ve been looking into snapRAID. It’s software-based and seems to work great if you don’t write/delete that much. Doesn’t require a NAS setup too, it can work on an existing install and hard drives with existing data!

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No media get’s deleted unless it’s redundant. All stored at my home NAS, currently with 42TB capactiy.

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damn how’s your NAS configured? How many drives do you have?

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jbod. It’s 2x6TB in the NAS and then USB drives (2x 5TB, 1x18TB and a 2TB SSD for music).

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JBOD?

You’re a brave soul. Best of luck to you

Dudes just out there raw dogging those drives. That takes some guts man. Not sure I have it in me to take an approach like that but it’s something I aspire to. For now, it’s rclone replication.

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Is JBOD a risky method?

It means that a disk goes bad and you lose the data. Typically there is some form of protection. I use standard raid 10 which is a bit dated but modern approaches like erasure coding are getting more common. Even if it’s JBOD, you should have a copy of the data in case a drive dies. That’s the value of like raid 5 since it gives you most of the drive space and tolerates a drive failure. RAID is available in software but I’m still using older LSI hardware controllers. A RAID1 mirror would basically be similar to just copying files from one drive to another manually. You get half the storage space but don’t panic when a drive dies. The thing is that drives do die. They are viewed as consumables and thus the question is always WHEN not IF they will die.

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Yes I do, I have 2 hard drives 8+5 with the 8TB one getting pretty close to full so I’ll need to buy a new one pretty soon, I don’t stream so I don’t need something like a NAS setup with Plex or Kodi

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Currently have 2x8TB & 2x18TB in a ZFS vdev config on TrueNAS. So usable space is ~22TB and i store everything i load on there until it’s really really not important anymore.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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

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Thats a totally a fair thing to store, dubs of different languages tend to be worse preserved.

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that’s a really good price. was it used?

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New, was some price fuck up iirc

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I’ve got x2 2tb drives plugged into a dock. When they were getting full, I questioned why I was keeping half the stuff. With 100mb internet (some may laugh at that speed lol) there’s no need to keep an abundance of easy to gets. I tend to keep only the hard to get or favourite stuff.

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some may laugh at that speed lol

there’s nothing funny about the ridiculous cable prices some places charge :( i used to have 15mbps until i moved and got 1gbps… seeing a tv show finish downloading in 3 minutes was an eye opening experience

i own stock in western digital (meaning i have stacks of hard drives and a dock)

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