Why the need for such large drives?

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As per title really. Why is there a need now a days for such large disk drives?

I have an OS drive, a 2TB games drive, OS backup and one for photos and documents. Drives now are going upto 20TB, in years gone by I did have music (CDs in FLAC) movies and tv shows but now there are music streaming services and things like Netflix for movies and tv shows.

What's everyone storing on 18TB HDDs?
 
I got 32TB storage - about 70% utilised. Most are 4K content. That’s what really take up space.

streaming services are great but some time you like your old shows or movies to be decent quality rather than 480p

some steam installations are huge!
 
COD/Warzone is 200GB+. Several games are silly large so I tend to ofoad them onto mechanical storage rather than redownload. I use my Synology for storing all the families stuff so can use up plenty of space. Currently have 2x12TB in RAID1. All the phones automatically backup to it.
 
Guest2 said:
What's everyone storing on 18TB HDDs?
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TV shows and films, primarily, followed by entire PC image backups, rather than just relying on the cloud.
Netflix and Amazon Prime are great, but they regularly rotate content, and it's easy to miss your chance to see things on those platforms before they disappear. If you're capable of saving that content for when you are ready to watch it...

It's also good for DVR capability if you have a digital tuner of some sort, as you can record shows / sport for later viewing.

I sacked off a lot of my DVD collection to eBay or the charity shop but made sure I kept copies digitally, and a lot of that stuff isn't on those streaming platforms unless I wanted to pay for it all over again via Amazon, iTunes or YouTube or whatever.
 
Thanks all.
So mainly just 4k / 1080p movies and tv shows.

Is there a updated Western Digital TV HD 1080P Media Player 'WD HD TV' ? - https://www.overclockers.co.uk/western-digital-wd-tv-hd-media-player-wdavp00be-hd-269-wd.html

We do still use ours from time to time but its 13 years old now!
There must be a device that has a quicker movie menu selection, faster rewind/fast forward, 4k, USBc etc. The WDHDTV I think is USB2 so no wonder its a bit on the slow side
 
I have a 12tb internal backup drive and an identical drive in a caddy.

Mainly to store backups of my photos (about 5tb) plus games and os drive.

I do have quite a bit of spare space at the moment but wanted a backup solution that should last for a few years.
 
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