[kylebenzle]

So you download movies via torrent then save them to a hard drive for the rest of your life?

I honestly don't understand, do you generally just add media to a larger and larger hard drive and then transfer it every couple years to a new one?

[superturkey650]

Not who you’re replying to, but that’s what I have been doing for about 15 years now.

[bravetraveler]

Some people even have many hard drives work together for capacity and reliability reasons! Storing many documents, not just entertainment!

It can be made into a pipeline where it's exactly like subscribing to a conventional service.. you just 'pay' with maintenance/curation.

No A/B testing, price hikes, or platform strong-arming. Well worth it in my opinion. Avoids all kinds of whims from publishers/co.

[edmundsauto]

I built a home server and can just add drives as needed. Right now I have something like 90TB available, with 30 of that free. Every year I probably add another drive. Soon I’ll have to get a disk shelf for further expansion, but that’s part of the hobby!

[genocidicbunny]

> I honestly don't understand, do you generally just add media to a larger and larger hard drive and then transfer it every couple years to a new one?

Not much to understand, it's exactly how you're describing, except maybe with the addition of occasionally encrypting a bunch of it and storing it offsite/cloud-based somewhere so that the 3-2-1 backup strategy is in play.

Netflix's premium plan is $23/mo, a 6TB WD Black HDD is $125 on Amazon, meaning roughly every 5 months for the same price of a Netflix premium subscription, I can increase my storage capacity by 6TB, with some minor added cost of needing the space to use that extra drive, and the power usage costs. And at the end of the day, if I stop paying Netflix my access to all that content goes away; As long as I have sufficient backups, that won't happen with my offline media collection.