[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.