• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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    11 days ago

    Storage is cheap for what you get.

    A DVD movie ripped to MKV is 3-5GB.

    A 12 terabyte drive is ~ $100. That’s… 2400 movies (if my math is right). My current movie collection is about 300 movies, 500GB of storage (I’ve ripped some stuff to MP4).

    Having a backup of 12TB would cost perhaps $100/yr (Im paying less than that for backup of my 4TB storage).

    Alternatively you can replicate your library with friends and family, pretty simple to do. Drop a mini pc with a drive in it running Kodi/Casaos/Freedombox, whatever, behind the TV at everyone’s house, for less than 20w of power you have a replicated media player.

    • dinckel@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      You’re misunderstanding. I’m not talking about drive space, i’m talking about the space the physical disk cases take up