Given only 24Mbps of download speed split between everything in one household, keeping things likely to be rewatched backed up not only saves bandwidth, but also makes having a 4K TV somewhat worthwhile.

I store contents on 128GB BDXL Blu Ray discs, I like to have all the media easily accessible and don’t want to degrade anytime I play it. If its larger than that I will put in on an SSD.

I personally only store things that are hard to get again. Things like obscure domestic TV and really old movies. If it’s something I can get again easily then I watch and delete.

I store my media, on mirrored disks the ones I scanned myself (to much work, mainly music), series are kept, some mirrored, some not. Movies are kept until I need more space. (I have about 6T mirrored and 8T unmirrored space for all data, including my backups, pictures,…

Anything I can download is pretty expendable, unless I really like it/it took a lot of time to get or find.

When it comes to movies and series: I permanently store the best ones and immidiately delete the bad ones. Something in between I usually keep until I reach a ratio over 5. I just don’t have a seperate huge drive to store everything

I have ~115TB of spinning rust currently. I house them (collection of 8-14TB WD white labels) in a DS4243 in which I replaced the IOM3s with IOM6s. I have this hooked up to a R630 (via an H200 IT controller) running ESXi with several VMs including a Windows VM running SnapRAID+Drivepool to manage the storage. I have the pool setup as a network share and run a docker stack with in which I bind the storage in fstab to my *arr setup, nzbhydra, rdt-client, etc. Someday I may transition to a full Linux setup with freenas, but this setup has served me well for years.

(5) 4TB hard drives in a Truenas Core server with Sonarr, Radarr, NZBGet, and Plex plugins.

Kind of a pain to set up the plugins correctly but once it’s running it’s great.

Yes I do, I have 2 hard drives 8+5 with the 8TB one getting pretty close to full so I’ll need to buy a new one pretty soon, I don’t stream so I don’t need something like a NAS setup with Plex or Kodi

i own stock in western digital (meaning i have stacks of hard drives and a dock)

So far. I only have 3TB in my NAS (RAID5) at the moment. I’ll see if the money I save on streaming services will pay for another array by the time I run out of storage.

I only store “rare old hard to get stuff that I loved a lot” but I just delete everything else after watching so I never have more than a 1TB drive half empty from which I also delete what I downloaded but will never watch after some time. All of that on my Raspberry pi home server with Emby and CasaOs.

Currently have 2x8TB & 2x18TB in a ZFS vdev config on TrueNAS. So usable space is ~22TB and i store everything i load on there until it’s really really not important anymore.

I used to store all my music on an HDD but the more, I thought about it. The less I did it. Still have about 68GB of music but won’t continue doing so. Don’t really keep movies or TV Shows stored, as I know, I will watch them once and then never again - Same thing for games.

Perhaps I will in the future when I can actually afford decent HDD/SSD’s. I’m curious how other do it.

I don’t have tons of digital media so it’s stored on 2 4TB portable HDD’s.

I only regularly download and keep things that either aren’t available on streaming or are removed from streaming services.

But since the writers strikes I download most things I want to watch as the streamers aren’t getting any more of my money until they pay writers what they’re worth.

You can also look at [email protected] for this kind of questions. It was full of good advice on reddit and I’m sure it will be equivalent on Lemmy.