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    6 hours ago

    It depends on the quality you’re looking for. Data hoarders often keep really really high quality files so they can convert it into whatever they want later on.

    A 4k remux can range from ~30gb-80gb. That’s ~200 4k movies assuming most are around 50gb.

    A 48khz .flac music album is ~500mb. That’s not alot but music makes sense to save locally, plenty of people just keep their music going all the time on shuffle.

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    Streaming TV is always something different, so, no point in storing it

    There is no point not storing it, you’re going to use the data either way, why not keep it? At the end of the day, you can get 20tb of storage for a reasonable amount of money, and typically the people with that kinda storage have accumulated it over the course of several years. You can always decide to get rid of stuff you don’t need if you find yourself low on space.