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Personally fed up with the greedy streaming companies. Price hikes, movies and series disappearing, lower quality because you don't pay for the premium deluxe 2.0 subscription, and the most annoying of all: advertisements, even though you do pay $$ for premium deluxe ultra 3.0 pro max subscription.
Selfhost 🙌🏻😊- music is always available, same with movies. Perfect!
...well, almost perfect. It really is quite expensive, but also very fun and rewarding getting it to work.
The expenses are mostly upfront though. I've spent like $400 on a relatively fancy NAS and two 3TB WD Red CMR drives five years ago, and since then, there was that.
Of course, depending on your use case, there could be extra expenses as well, some of them recurring:
Now, for the streaming alternative:
Your NAS system will pay off in a little over a year (maybe two years if you go all in with huge drives, fancy NAS configs, extra expenses here and there), and it's smooth sailing from there.
My unit works for 5 years already with no maintenance, is still fully supported by the manufacturer, and I don't expect to replace it in a few more years.