• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I understand that from a business perspective, but I’m having a hard time rationalizing it for personal use.

    I guess, if you’re doing a lot of video editing and you want to preserve a large personal library? Idk.

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      6 months ago

      It’s mostly family photos and videos. I’ve become the de facto family digital archivist. Some digital copies of important phyiscal records. When you convert files to lossless/uncompressed formats suitable for long term storage they get large really quickly.