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Aside from using the word 'consume'...
I don't like hoarding. I become so isolated from choice that I can't enjoy anything I've ever acquired. I've always gotten what I wanted because I wanted it, not because everyone else has gotten it and not because it's just to take up data on my drives. What I have now currently anyways, will sustain me for days to months and getting more of it will not make it better. It'll just bring oversaturation and I'll be too isolated again to bother.
I only dl shit i'm interested in. After watching if it's gonna be rewatched, it goes on the fserve. If not, delete
I mostly only load TV shows and movies. At least those are by large the biggest part in terms of storage taken. Well.. I only load stuff that I actually want to watch. I also load some stuff for friends, but it has to be decent quality and be not totally niche (aka I'm eventually watching it, or other friends)
I try to only grab the stuff someone in the house wants to watch.
If my drives ever fill up, I’ll either expand or delete things I know we’ll never watch again.
I'm mostly hoarding this stuff because I have no fucking clue.
what is the problem?
I feel like I'm being wasteful, saving up a lot to probably never actually use. Can't even seed some of the stuff because there are no torrents, so I have to resort to direct download sites way more often than I'd like, no less.
Use a 256 GB ssd Good luck hoarding on that rice grain
And this is why I consider SSDs to be a downgrade compared to HDDs lol
I just watch and delete because I don't ever really watch anything more than a few times anyways.
The only kind of stuff I've ever made backups of is dev software and old keygens because . well - that kind of stuff disappears too easily with the new&shiny fad.
when a wildfire took down my internet last month I sure didn't regret hoarding. I had plenty of unseen entertainment at my disposal, watched a bunch of new shows. when it did come back I decided not only to keep hoarding anything interesting to me, but to invest in a new backup drive to keep the hoard safe lol.
I keep the stuff I download and seed it until I run out of room, I have a TB hdd for movies and such; and since I download like huge files, I usually delete stuff if I don't care about it a lot
I archive, never delete or stop seeding. I would just delete when you need space if you don't want to buy drives.
I format my drives once every couple years. Makes me think real hard about what to keep.
Do you need the space? If not who cares.
Personally I run a media service for friends and family. I'm about to bring another 100tb online because we are running low on storage. Am I holding or just running a rack of servers in my basement?