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Go to your favorite YT creator's channels and download important content! Educational content, lectures, nostalgic content. Anything and everything you have the storage for.
One day, it will be locked away behind paywalls, poisoned with ads, or just deleted entirely.
Part of preparing for war is stockpiling supplies. Buy bulk storage. An extra 2-4 TB hard drive can be bought for 100-200 dollars. It doesn't have to be fancy, get a friend or two to go in with you on it.
Download and save everything you value. Rip your physical media and save it, pirate the shows and movies you love. One day it will be locked away or stolen from you because the terms of service changed.
Please don't delay, I wish I had started years ago myself.
Just keep in mind that hard drives do not last forever. They'll last a few years of regular use, maybe up to a decade if you're lucky. Storing media on a hard drive is not like having a box of books in your basement, your kids aren't going to be able to use them in 40 years.
Eh, now days unless you're really beating them up, most HDDs will last at least 5-7 years.
You are right that people need to have multiple backups on different media, especially really important stuff.
3:2:1 The Golden Rule.
3 backups minimum, two on site, one off.
Totally!
Bit outdated info on hard drive pricing, I recently bought 12TB drives for $85 each (albeit used)
You're right though, actually even cheaper than I thought.
5TB portable HDDs new on Newegg for $100 - $150
All the more reason to start hoarding data!
Thanks for this advice, I will take your advice as soon as possible.
We desperately need a radarr/sonarr type setup to auto download youtube channels
That would be really cool.
That dosent get your ip banned :(
Hm good point that would be a challenge, then again if it's downloading the ads too, so google thinks you're watching them and then strips them with ai after saving them could be ok