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I'd say piracy ... but it's definitely no cheaper the way I do it (at least not short term).
But if you have some spare storage and don't need a huge amount of content, that's a good option.
What are you spending the money on? Physical sever devices? Electricity?
Yeah, personal hardware. Replaced my 2 bay (2x 6 TB) NAS that had 5 USB drives attached with more powerful 12 bay NAS and 9x 20TB drives. Luckily before the insane price hikes due to the AI hype. Still, I invest like $7000 over all at least. That's a lot of years of netflix/spotify :D
I don't even bother with the electricity, it just is what it is.
Jeeeeeesus. I've got 20TB and that feels like a lot 😅
8 of the drives are on a raid 6 and one is a hot spare and converted to 1000 based terrabyte, I'm maxing out at 109.1 TB, but max volume size is 108 TB.
But I've interacted with people that had 1.2 PB ... there is always a bigger fish ^^
Meanwhile, I'm over here about to attach a 2tb drive to my Nextcloud server and I thought that was a lot...