I am basically in the camp of "it is impossible to have readily-accessible stuff that you don't have to constantly babysit".
I have a server in my basement with like 35tb of zfs storage to hold my blu-ray rips. The movies are backed up onto tapes, and those are more or less durable but not really readily-accessible (and kind of a pain).
A very large quantity of my time is spent mucking around with disks, and fixing data issues. Even when there's no data issues, there might be a transient read error which causes a fault and I have to spend time dealing with scrubs or at the very least checksumming files to make sure that they're fine.
A masochistic part of me kind of enjoys it, but honestly it's gotten to a point where I'm debating just paying some money to Hetzner or Amazon and selling off the servers.
35TiB on Hetzner or Amazon isn't exactly going to be cheap, but regardless of that, even if you don't give up your local server, I'd still ask what your off-site backup situation is. Two friend's houses got broken into (different cities) and had their shit stolen, and another had their stuff destroyed in a fire, so at some point, I added cloud storage for off-site backup into my strategy.
Serious question: Why go to so much trouble to back up your blu-ray rips? Why not just keep the original discs in a binder / on a spindle, and re-rip them if your hard drive dies?
I have over 400 movies, and about 30 complete TV series. Ripping movies isn't so bad, takes about 40 minutes on my laptop, but ripping TV series is a huge pain in the ass.
Episodes appear to be stored in no particular order on Blu-ray, so I end up having to open the video file, pray for a title card, and match that against an episode order list on Wikipedia.
For some shows (like most British shows) this isn't too bad, since there's a very small number of episodes so re-ripping doesn't take too long. For other shows (e.g. Adventure Time), there's a million episodes, and correctly labeling them takes a lot of effort that I do not want to duplicate.
The thing is...I have re-ripped all my blu-rays. Twice. Because I didn't know what I was doing with ZFS and kept breakingu cluster. I don't really want to do it again.
I have a server in my basement with like 35tb of zfs storage to hold my blu-ray rips. The movies are backed up onto tapes, and those are more or less durable but not really readily-accessible (and kind of a pain).
A very large quantity of my time is spent mucking around with disks, and fixing data issues. Even when there's no data issues, there might be a transient read error which causes a fault and I have to spend time dealing with scrubs or at the very least checksumming files to make sure that they're fine.
A masochistic part of me kind of enjoys it, but honestly it's gotten to a point where I'm debating just paying some money to Hetzner or Amazon and selling off the servers.