[emodendroket]

Another possibility is just using it to capture your own play, for instance if you want to review matches later to try and analyze flaws in your game.

[ilyt]

That's massive stretch. Why would anyone do that? Twitch player isn't that great if you want to seek around the video

[johannes1234321]

It works easily and keeping hours and hours of video locally still requires quite some storage space

[majewsky]

My OBS recordings (of mostly game footage) come out to between 1 and 1.5 GiB/hour for 1080p resolution. Given that simple external HDDs start at about 20€ for 500 GiB, that comes out to 6 cents of storage per hour recorded. Your power bill for the gaming PC is going to be higher than that in some places.

[emodendroket]

OK, so we’ve established that it is possible to do it another way if you want. But why get an external hard drive if you’re happy with Twitch VODs?

[majewsky]

Twitch VODs are only retained for 14 days (or 60 days if you're subscribed to Twitch Turbo).

[emodendroket]

Yeah but are you going to want to review years-old footage or stuff from the last few weeks?

[johlits]

One use case is speedrunning. If you don't have space on your PC and want to record your runs.

[emodendroket]

I myself have used it for this purpose so I don’t think it’s a massive stretch.