It becomes a whole different thing when you yourself are a creator of any kind. Sure you can retorrent TBs of movies. But you can’t retake that video from 3 years ago. I have about 2 TB of photos I took. I classify that as media.
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Xanza@lemm.ee 4 days ago
I continuous backup important files/configurations to my NAS. That’s about it.
IMO people who redundant/backup their media are insane… It’s such an incredible waste of space. Having a robust media library is nice, but there’s no reason you can’t just start over if you have data corruption or something. I have TB and TB of media that I can redownload in a weekend if something happens (if I even want). No reason to waste backup space, IMO.
groet@feddit.org 4 days ago
Xanza@lemm.ee 4 days ago
It becomes a whole different thing when you yourself are a creator of any kind.
Clearly this isn’t the type of media I was referencing…
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Maybe for common stuff but some dont want 720p YTS or yify releases.
There are also some releases that don’t follow TVDB aired releases (which sonarr requires) and matching 500 episodes manually with deviating names isn’t exactly what I call ‘fun time’.
Amd there are also rare releases that just arent seeded anymore in that specific quality or present on usenet.
So yes: Backup up some media files may be important.
Xanza@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Data hoarding random bullshit will never make sense to me. You’re literally paying to keep media you didn’t pay for because you need the 4k version of Guardians of the Galaxy 3 even though it was a shit movie…
Grab the YIFY, if it’s good, then get the 2160p version… No reason to datahoard like that. It’s frankly just stupid considering you’re paying to store this media.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
This may work for you and please continue doing that.
But I’ll get the 1080p with a moderate bitrate version of whatever I can aquire because I want it in the first place and not grab whatever I can to fill up my disk.
And as I mentioned: Matching 500 episodes (e.g. Looney Tunes and Disney shorts) manually isnt fun.
Much less if you also want to get the exact release (for example music) of a certain media and need to play detective on musicbrainz.
Xanza@lemm.ee 4 days ago
With tools like TinyMediaManager, why in the absolute fuck would you do it manually?
At this point, it sounds like you’re just bad at media management more than anything. 1080p h265 video is at most between 1.5-2GB per video. That means with even a modest network connection speed (500Mbps lets say) you can realistically download 5TB of data over 24 hours… You can redownload your entire media library in less than 4-5 days if you wanted to.
So why spend ~$700 on 2 20TB drives, one to be used only as redundancy, when you can simply redownload everything you previously had (if you wanted to) for free? It’ll just take a little bit of time.
Complete waste of money.