I will grab the occasional file that really interests me, but lately since I’ve discovered sites like Flixer or streamvaults, I will just stream the shows and movies that I’m curious about but don’t really feel the need to collect.
What about you?
I hoard. Physical media is getting harder to come by, but I’ve ripped all my DVD’s, TV shows, all BDs, all UHD BDs, and 3D. About 2k discs in total. A lot I’ve found used, local video shop closeouts, etc. My dad has about 400-450 retail CDs. I’ve backed up all his stuff too.
I’ve got 8x 16TB drives (RAID5+spare), 10x 8TB drives (RAID5 +spare), and some 2TB SSDs (RAID10) for personal files for my family.
I’ve purchased a new 24x bay Rosewill case for the next expansion 😅. My wife doesn’t like the noise emanating from the basement. ✈️
Me I have an library of 55000 songs
i don’t really pirate music any more, i get 90% of what i want to listen to from podcasts, internet/community radio and youtube mixes. trying to get in the habit buying stuff i really like from bandcamp to actually support artists.
my mate put me on his family spotify… so use that very rarely, mostly for nostalgia hits.
movies/tv 100% 🏴☠️
I hoard media. I’m particular about my releases. I don’t want to stream some shady website that could disappear half way through a show.
I kept waiting to invest in more drives. Now I’m stuck with 4x4TB for the foreseeable future because replacing that raid array is brutal and even then I want to go bigger. Like the other commenter said, I’d like to be able to mirror big data sets.
Curate, is my advice.
I occasionally go through and cull the worst shows and movies. No point keeping mainstream crap that’s readily available on all the streaming sites.
