The trick is to get the lightly used 12TB drives from the people who just upgraded to 20TB drives.

Good luck finding those in Europe. Second hand stuff is being sold here at almost new prices (or above new!). Been so many times that it was not worth buying second hand because the price difference was barely 5 a 10% vs New + 2 year warranty + 2week return.

Over the last 2 years, I’ve noticed that I spend WAY more time carefully cataloguing my collections of digital media (games, anime) than actually experiencing those media.

Collecting is the fun part. Its the keeping up to date, that is the mindboggling dull part.

If you collect good comic series, well, … trying to keep track of new releases that you want to read is annoying. Same with web series or web novels. Note: Non-US (EU) comic series are much harder to keep track off, as most programs focus on US comics.