PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For::Sony says Mythbusters and more Discovery TV shows are going away whether you bought them or not

  • Chocrates@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I stopped piraring when I graduated college and streaming started to be wonderful. It is now a bleak hellscape that is more expensive than ever. Time to buy 20tb of hard drives and install Jellyfin I guess :(

    • CalicoJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      On the bright side, 20TB of hard drives is relatively cheap these days if you buy used. They’ll pay for themselves in a year if you kill the streaming services.

      Happy sailing

        • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          1 year ago

          Might as well just rent a server at that point, more memory and performance for basically the same price.

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            1 year ago

            You’re not getting a rented VPS for the cost of a 12tb hdd. You’re not getting any space with a server for that cost.

            • whofearsthenight@lemm.ee
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              1 year ago

              12tb is literally $100 right now new. also my fellow hoarders, save a bookmark to that site it’s great.

              If you want to hit eBay and buy used disks, you can probably build something with redundancy and 20tb+ for around $300. If you’ve got a machine laying around and don’t plan on downloading everything on every service, you can grab 16tb used for $100, use one drive for parity, and the spend $50 when you run out of space for another 8tb.

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                1 year ago

                I run drivebender and a whole JBOD setup with random storage in it for this purpose. It works great and has been through 3 different homes and over 8 years now. Drives become cold storage when I upgrade a new one.

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      1 year ago

      Heh, I’m about at capacity with my 20 tb of storage. I think I’m getting myself a Synology NAS for Christmas. I’ll probably spend a couple grand on the device and the drives, but it’s totally worth it to own everything. No regrets.