>>78934
It is expensive but you can get 8TB, 12TB even 16TB magnetic SATA external drives. You'll of-course always want some spare backups with copies of all your files because if one drive ever crashes or gets corrupted you don't want to lose all those files, you best have the same files stored elsewhere offline. Mirror drives essentially. Yes you are going to pay money for it, it is an investment, but consider this: do you want physical ownership of media or not?

The other alternative route, which I also do, is collecting my favorite movies and classic TV shows on DVDs and box sets. Vinyl records and CDs for my favorite music. Stereos and multi-media players (like those made by Crosley) are still affordable last time I checked. DVD & Bluray players you can find at any Goodwill, thrift shop or garage/yard sale, or perhaps Ebay. Same with all the physical media.

That said I do not recommend any cassette technology, it might be a hip trend with young people today but I can't tell you how many times my cassettes have gotten eaten up, humidity got to them and ruined them, they get warped easily over time and go bad, sometimes long term storage the magnetic tapes just get hard and crumble apart. Video and audio cassettes are a total waste of money in my opinion, you'll end up throwing it out sometimes before you use the damn things.