I archive, never delete or stop seeding. I would just delete when you need space if you don't want to buy drives.
this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2024
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I only dl shit i'm interested in. After watching if it's gonna be rewatched, it goes on the fserve. If not, delete
Often I download just to seed but only when I know the uploaders
I download the Top 10 on public trackers periodically just to seed. Free storage space is just wasted
when a wildfire took down my internet last month I sure didn't regret hoarding. I had plenty of unseen entertainment at my disposal, watched a bunch of new shows. when it did come back I decided not only to keep hoarding anything interesting to me, but to invest in a new backup drive to keep the hoard safe lol.
I try to only grab the stuff someone in the house wants to watch.
If my drives ever fill up, I’ll either expand or delete things I know we’ll never watch again.
I mostly only load TV shows and movies. At least those are by large the biggest part in terms of storage taken. Well.. I only load stuff that I actually want to watch. I also load some stuff for friends, but it has to be decent quality and be not totally niche (aka I'm eventually watching it, or other friends)
I'm mostly hoarding this stuff because I have no fucking clue.
what is the problem?
I feel like I'm being wasteful, saving up a lot to probably never actually use. Can't even seed some of the stuff because there are no torrents, so I have to resort to direct download sites way more often than I'd like, no less.
I only download what I plan to consume shortly, then delete.
Use a 256 GB ssd Good luck hoarding on that rice grain
And this is why I consider SSDs to be a downgrade compared to HDDs lol
I just watch and delete because I don't ever really watch anything more than a few times anyways.
The only kind of stuff I've ever made backups of is dev software and old keygens because . well - that kind of stuff disappears too easily with the new&shiny fad.
I keep the stuff I download and seed it until I run out of room, I have a TB hdd for movies and such; and since I download like huge files, I usually delete stuff if I don't care about it a lot
All the few shows/movies on my hard drive I end up watching when I get around to it and feel like watching. Though, recently, there have been 3 specific cartoons I've been watching a lot more of due to not feeling like watching other shows.
So far, the only things I have got that were bad quality and unwatchable were 2 cartoons. One you could easily tell it was upscaled and just looked a bit off, making it feel uncomfortable for me to watch and enjoy. The other, first episode in and they cut the theme song and had the channel watermark, for a show that's a few decades, so I didn't bother checking the other episodes and just deleted it. With the first show, I looked immediately because there was a specific episode I needed to check, but the other, it took me over a half a year to finally check to see how good quality it is/was.
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?
I format my drives once every couple years. Makes me think real hard about what to keep.