• Clent@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Indeed. Investing in your own hardware is far more satisfying. And unlike steaming costs, hard drives only decrease in price.

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      8 months ago

      I got an 18TB HDD for $360 and threw it in my $80 Dell Optiplex server running Ubuntu server 20.04 LTS. I continue to seed everything I’ve ever torrented and have only filled 4TB. I probably won’t have to start deleting things for like 2 years.