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What has been your best financial move in life? (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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[โ€“] 98 points 2 years ago (20 children)

Piracy

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  • [โ€“] 20 points 2 years ago* (19 children)

    For me that was one of the worst financial moves ever made.

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 2 years ago (17 children)

    How so?

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  • [โ€“] 48 points 2 years ago (16 children)

    Well, for the amount of money I spend on hard drives and other hardware I could subscribe to Netflix for about 30 years.

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    How much disk space do you need?

    I have a simple 500GD HDD ($25) and a 230GB (?).

    I also have $120 worth of DVD and CD for ~$60 thanks to Goodwill

    Fits nicely.

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  • [โ€“] 29 points 2 years ago* (11 children)

    My current raw capacity is at 160 TB.

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  • [โ€“] 17 points 2 years ago* (9 children)

    Wild! I've got about 40 TB myself, and have never come across someone with more... let alone four times more.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    40 TB was my previous capacity and based around a really cheap 2 bay NAS with a mess of external USB drives attached and no backup ... and is now pretty much full.

    So I ordered a 12 bay NAS (with, for now 6x 20TB disks) to bascially replace the entire old setup. I'm also planning to put the new setup in RAID 5 or 6, so it will only have an effective storage of 80-100 TB.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    The f do you store on all that space? Raw blu-ray rips?

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Just a lot of stuff. TV Shows/Series take up by far the most space. For example, just the Simpsons in 1080p (h264) takes over 500GB.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Do you actually watch all of the stuff you download, or is it more like a digital hoard?

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    No, that would be literally impossible. The total of playtime of what I downloaded in the last year is over 1 year and 7 months (+5 months if you include music).

    So the majority is just ... archiving.

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