Asking mostly because I have fuckloads of video courses, plus a number of movies, that I have yet to even check if the content is as good as their titles imply and I really feel like I’m mostly hoarding this stuff because I have no fucking clue.

3 points

Aside from using the word ‘consume’…

I don’t like hoarding. I become so isolated from choice that I can’t enjoy anything I’ve ever acquired. I’ve always gotten what I wanted because I wanted it, not because everyone else has gotten it and not because it’s just to take up data on my drives. What I have now currently anyways, will sustain me for days to months and getting more of it will not make it better. It’ll just bring oversaturation and I’ll be too isolated again to bother.

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

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depends on what job are you working

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And where in the world you live.

I got a friend in Australia with a pretty similar storage setup to me, but he’s paid about 1.5x as much as I did in the UK.

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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.

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Same deal, got a full 3-2-1 backup of all my data! Easy to recover if I make a mistake but even easier to replace with higher quality newer builds of Linux isos.

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There’s no reason to avoid hoarding!

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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?

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I only download what I plan to consume shortly, then delete.

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I do almost that, but I don’t delete so that I can seed

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I seed until the ratio is 2.0 which I think is fine for popular torrents. I keep seeding obscure stuff that I struggled to download myself, but that’s quite rare, so it doesn’t lead to ‘hoarding’.

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