Data Hoarder
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.
I used to go multiple times a week, then they took away PC games.
I used to go multiple times a month, then they severely reduced PC Part selection.
I used to go several times a year, now they remove physical media.
There's no reason to go to Best Buy, except maybe on Black Friday.
Walmart or Target.
I always pre-order on Amazon because they will almost always drop the price right when it comes out. Saves me $7-10 bucks over Walmart.
Target or Walmart (price match with amazon if the online price is lower)
Walmart maybe? It's a shame best buy is going to stop.
As a side note, I have a question for you or anyone else in datahorder that uses the BluRay ripping method.
Do you consider the BluRay disc as a method of redundancy?
It seems like a reasonable idea to store all your rips in 1 or 2 hard drive that aren't raided. It saves so much space and the only real downfall is if it fails you have to rip the disc's again. I'm just curious of other pitfalls doing it this way. The only one I can really think of is that you might lose your media server indexing data, but that can be easily backed up somewhere else.
Just curious if anyone has gone this method and how it went.