I would add, stop setting up these huge RAID 6/10 boxes to store all your hoarded media. Media doesn't need additional redundancy, especially not if it's based on good old "naval aquisition".
If it came from the internet, chances are high that it can still be found there, and there's absolutely no reason for you to add any redundancy to avoid data loss. If it's by some weird coincidence not found on the internet, fear not, most media is mass replicated onto various forms of physical media, and chances are high that a copy of that can be had for very little money.
But before rushing out to empty the local "on sale" DVD/Blu-Ray bins, take a good long breath and consider if you'll ever actually watch said media again, or it's just sentimental value ? Most of the people i know that hoard media will rarely rewatch anything, and simply pile on top of what they already have. Once you realize that you're just collecting digital cruft, it becomes a lot easier to just delete it all.
Also keep in mind that the electricity cost of running a harddrive in europe is around €2/month, and with enough harddrives it actually becomes cheaper to just subscribe to one or more streaming services.
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I would add, stop setting up these huge RAID 6/10 boxes to store all your hoarded media. Media doesn't need additional redundancy, especially not if it's based on good old "naval aquisition".
If it came from the internet, chances are high that it can still be found there, and there's absolutely no reason for you to add any redundancy to avoid data loss. If it's by some weird coincidence not found on the internet, fear not, most media is mass replicated onto various forms of physical media, and chances are high that a copy of that can be had for very little money.
But before rushing out to empty the local "on sale" DVD/Blu-Ray bins, take a good long breath and consider if you'll ever actually watch said media again, or it's just sentimental value ? Most of the people i know that hoard media will rarely rewatch anything, and simply pile on top of what they already have. Once you realize that you're just collecting digital cruft, it becomes a lot easier to just delete it all.
Also keep in mind that the electricity cost of running a harddrive in europe is around €2/month, and with enough harddrives it actually becomes cheaper to just subscribe to one or more streaming services.
Problem is to watch all the things you want to watch you may need 5 or 6 subs, so you could add a few more hard drives I'd say.
just switch between 2-3 subs, rotate them every 1-3 months.
What a pain when popcorn time makes it so much easier and puts everything in one place.