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EtzBetz ,

I mostly only load TV shows and movies. At least those are by large the biggest part in terms of storage taken. Well… I only load stuff that I actually want to watch. I also load some stuff for friends, but it has to be decent quality and be not totally niche (aka I’m eventually watching it, or other friends)

DoucheBagMcSwag , (edited )

Thanks to MetalJesusRocks, I just grabbed a pack of 7,000 MS DOS game (ExoDos) at almost half a TB

help me

Facebones ,

Definitely not investigating this when I get home

DoucheBagMcSwag ,

Nope. Definitely not. Wink

RootBeerGuy ,
@RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

That’s like 70 MB per game unless my napkin math is off by a few 0s. Sounds rather large for MS DOS games?

Bronzie ,

I try to only grab the stuff someone in the house wants to watch.

If my drives ever fill up, I’ll either expand or delete things I know we’ll never watch again.

septimian ,

I only pirate TV/movies, and since I never know what I’ll feel like watching it’s pretty easy to just hoard it. Takes a long time to fill up drives so adding a 16TB drive once a year or two is pretty manageable.

But tbh the main reason I hoard them and keep my Plex library full is simply to keep view stats. Prior to Plex I was constantly plagued by “have I seen this” or “what was that movie I liked 10 years ago?”. But not anymore!

Also, when the zombie apocalypse happens I’ll finally have time to rewatch Breaking Bad so I need an offline copy just in case.

DoucheBagMcSwag ,

Or when streaming services start at $70.00 a month with ads.

Flax_vert ,

What is your drive setup?

Barzaria ,

What I do is sort the directories and files by size and go largest to smallest. Based on the likely distribution of files sizes, 20% of your files and/or directories will account for 80% of the hard drive space. I usually then choose candidates for deletion and evaluate them, deleting them on the spot or skipping them for this time. I do this until I get the space reduction I want or until I’m sure that I want to keep what is in the largest 20%. After I reach one of the two states: top 20% of files/directories are keepers or I deleted down X GB. This method can be done with any sorting method. For example, by play count or by date added, old to new. Keep going until the top 20% are keepers. The same distribution is likely to apply across all vertical data labels so the filter is generically usable in lots of situations. For example, 20% of car drivers likely get 80% of speeding tickets. We could reduce speeding by 80% by speed limiting these drivers’ cars or by revoking their drivers licenses. Another example is memory hogs in a computer system. The top 20% of memory hogging programs likely account for 80% of used memory in a system. This distribution is called the Pareto principle. The principle is an example of a power law.

astrsk ,
@astrsk@kbin.run avatar

Storage is cheap. There’s no reason to delete content.

UnspokenIdiot ,

depends on what job are you working

tobogganablaze ,

Only reason I delete content is when I upgrade. Like replacing a low resolution version of show with a higher one. Still, I keep immutable “snapshots” of my entire media folder so even after deleting something, It’ll stick around for at least 6 months in case I need to restore it.

send_me_your_ink ,

Do you need the space? If not who cares.

Personally I run a media service for friends and family. I’m about to bring another 100tb online because we are running low on storage. Am I holding or just running a rack of servers in my basement?

FeelThePower ,
@FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

when a wildfire took down my internet last month I sure didn’t regret hoarding. I had plenty of unseen entertainment at my disposal, watched a bunch of new shows. when it did come back I decided not only to keep hoarding anything interesting to me, but to invest in a new backup drive to keep the hoard safe lol.

sub_ubi ,

There’s no reason to avoid hoarding!

dhtseany ,

How do you avoid “hoarding”?

Looks at my 28TB storage array that’s 3/4 full…

tobogganablaze ,

Time to buy new HDDs.

herrcaptain ,

Avoid hoarding? Let’s just say I bring a real “gotta catch em all” energy to the trackers.

halm ,
@halm@leminal.space avatar

A) Almost every day. I have a constant backlog/watchlist but it’s small and fairly constant.

B) Once or twice a year I go over my media and delete movies or shows that I’m definitely not watching again. I am hoarding, though only the good stuff. Nothing wrong with that.

hendrik ,

Haha, good question. You're not alone with that. I suppose you just clean up once per year. Like you're supposed to do with your wardrobe, or that one drawer in the kitchen...

Reverendender ,

You’re supposed to clean your wardrobe?

hendrik ,

Uh, no. I don't know what I'm saying. I meant sort through, get rid of old stuff. I've never cleaned the insides that way. And I suppose don't do that to the harddisk either.

scottmeme ,

My goal is to store everything, that way I have no dependence on remote media

Flax_vert ,

Home datacentre 😋

Vanth ,
@Vanth@reddthat.com avatar

Outside of a small handful, I don’t rewatch movies and feel no drive to keep my own copies. I keep a “to watch” list in Letterbox’d and that is excessively long, but I rarely have more than a couple dozen movies downloaded from that list at any given time. That’s how I do books too, long “to read” list but actually downloaded, not much.

Music is a different story. I can pull up the playlist for the first mixed CD I burned in middle school and everything since then.

classic ,

Kindred spirits! I log 'to check out' lists and call it a day

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