Why the need for such large drives?

[Guest2]

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?

 

[Guest2]

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