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I‘ve recently heard the term „data prepper“, which I think nails it. I‘d probably qualify as one myself.

DataHoarder is a very active reddit community devoted to this “hobby”

Edit: moved response to correct/intended comment

Sounds like a disease which would require some form of therapy. I couldn't imagine the sickness that would entice one to download and store/reseed content that I had no intention of ever watching like Kardashians or Twighlight or whatever content just because. I hope you get the help you need!

What happened to not judging from 30 minutes ago? Now you're saying it requires therapy.

I'm not going to go out and collect in this manner, but I have ended up with a rather sizable collection of discs I might watch someday. I had pretty much stopped buying discs because streaming was easier and I can mostly ignore the difference in quality; but I've been bitten by too many things becoming unavailable... if the discs are cheap, I'm going to get them and maybe one day watch them.

> What happened to not judging from 30 minutes ago? Now you're saying it requires therapy.

because it's not the same person, and the person i replied to sounded much more comedic by using an air quotes term, so i followed suit.

> if the discs are cheap,

but you're not collecting discs. you're collecting files. if you were collecting discs, it would be even more of a hoarding situation.

also, I can have the opinion that something needs therapy without judgement.

There has been dozens of times I heard about some classic and wanted to watch it. When I look it up on <streaming service> it is not available. If it's an old movie it can be hard to find a good torrent for it. Having an extensive local library of movies of general interest sounds nice, especially going forward when content will disappear and become more fractured between paid services.

No need to reseed when you just hoard Linux ISOs.

yeah, cuz that's exactly what people are using Popcorn Time 0.5.0 to do <facepalm>

I think it's a joke, "Linux ISOs" is a known euphemism for movies/porn/etc on /r/datahoarders.

16TB is a single hard drive these days. It's easier to grab everything at that point instead of picking through, and having everything gives you a nice easy claim you can make.

16TB on a single drive is just asking for more faith in the tech than I can muster.

You can split it into two drives at about the same price. Or add a backup drive to minimize the risk.

Though I would say that thinking you need a certain amount of data safety is more of an unhealthy thought pattern than saying "sure, give me all the movies for my $250 drive".

> Though I would say that thinking you need a certain amount of data safety is more of an unhealthy thought pattern

WTF is that? anybody that doesn't think about data safety deserves having their data lost. and if you come back with "just download it again" just proves why you don't need to have it downloaded locally to start

> deserves having their data lost

That is toxic. That toxicity is worse than "wasting" a single drive.

> and if you come back with "just download it again" just proves why you don't need to have it downloaded locally to start

How about "you can get most of it back, and it's okay to have a collection that's at risk of partial loss (good luck making any physical collection immune to loss)"

You're trading off the time to get things back and the percent you can get back for the cost of [redundant] backups.

> need to have it downloaded locally

Nobody suggested it needs to be downloaded. Do you only have data that you need to have?

I wouldn't do it for myself but I live in a big household with kids.

I expect many other "hoarders" are in a situation where what they are actually trying to do is provide a good discovery experience for others where it is not entirely clear what they would want.

You can use overseer/jellyseer and they are great but not as nice as just picking something from media browser.

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