Data Hoarder

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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Do you collect anything physical? (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by TattedUpSimba@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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So my wife knows I’m a data hoarder and she’s unbothered. Thank god 😂

But she asked me why do I collect comics physically when they could be digital and take less space? I didn’t have an answer so I said just cause haha. I was curious for y’all do you collect anything physical? And if so what do you collect? Also why?

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[–] McGoodotnet@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Retail DVD and Blu ray discs are actually cheaper than using hard drives now. I pay .15 on DVD and .50 on Blu ray. It is essentially data hoarding by different means

[–] BrianBeats@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How do you get blu ray so cheap? eBay or?

[–] McGoodotnet@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Mostly Facebook Marketplace. People dump them in favor of netflix/hulu. Their asking price is insanely high usually. If you need a more accurate price head down to your pawn shop and try and sell them a stack. This gives you a better idea of what you can pay and where the market is at.