It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Mukha_Vertolet on 2025-07-03 21:35:02.

I need to download a playlist of ~1100 videos from YouTube, mostly music. I have a few questions I'm not sure about:

How much space will I need? I want to download full videos with the best possible quality. In general they're 3-7 minutes long, with some exceptions like super extended versions which I'm gonna skip. Will 4tb be enough? 8tb? Preferably, I'd like to have some space left for other things. Also, what exactly does the color of the disk mean? Which one should I look into?

What problems may I run into if I'm using yt-dlp? I've read that YouTube may ban you for downloading videos in a bulk. How should I go about this?

I've been thinking of doing this for a while now and couldn't really make up my mind, so any advice would be appreciated.