Data Hoarder

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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Perks of server-based hoarding? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’ve had seedboxes on and off for decades. I always shut it down when I don’t use it for a year or so, copying my files to physical drives first, so I don’t need to maintain physical volumes.

Lately I’m noticing cost of space is getting pricier somehow. Speed is getting cheaper, which used to be the expense in this.

Does anyone else have a modern version of this practice going? I have many TB of content that have been on drives for about 3 years and I came across this sub, got curious again.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Some seedboxes allow you to install media services like jellyfin so your videos that you just pirated can hang out on their server instead of being downloaded to yours

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Great idea! Some file sharing applications I’ve tried can stream but last time I tried it was choppy as heck

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Sir I am shocked, I tell you, shocked! I would never commit an act of piracy, don’t you know that’s illegal!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

sounds like you've got a solid system in place! i've been using a mix of cloud storage and external drives to manage my data. it's wild how the cost of space keeps going up, right? definitely makes you reconsider your storage strategy.