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Ad-free streaming is a luxury now (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

It's still not bad if you're buying old SAS drives. At this point, anything 4TB or less is fine, and for most people that's plenty to start with.

If you're ripping DVD and BluRay content, you probably will gobble up space quickly without re-encoding it, but otherwise you can store content from streaming services with ease.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    My point was more that Stremio with debrid costs maybe $50/yr and requires minimal knowledge/maintenance, as well as having other benefits (depending on the debrid service.)

    If you have zero care in the world about storing the media, Stremio makes much more sense imho.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    I can only speak for myself, but any such service can only be looked at as a temporary solution. How long before that goes away? With your own media (be it ripped from disks you own or obtained elsewhere), it's not temporary.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago*

    I built my 32tb server a couple of years ago when drive prices were reasonable, but many of the rips on it are strait remuxes. Now that another drive or two is not likely affordable anytime soon, I'm re-encoding them to x265 to reclaim a bunch of space.

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