Basically this. Archiving old games and things that you want to play but you don’t want them to constantly occupy hard drive space. I have an external 8TB drive connected to my router for other stuff I actively use.
Archival purposes. Movies and shows you watch often; games you’ve bought through GOG or Steam that you want to keep but don’t always want clunking around on a hard drive. I have an 8TB network drive that I throw more ephemeral files on. It also houses a bunch of ROMs.
Pirate and burn to a disc. I threw my old LiteOn BD burner in an external case. No ragrets.
Why would you put it on a plastic disc? It’s a file, save it to you hard drive.
Maybe to save on storage space? Also, many people like to have their media on a physical disc, so that could also be why.
Basically this. Archiving old games and things that you want to play but you don’t want them to constantly occupy hard drive space. I have an external 8TB drive connected to my router for other stuff I actively use.
Archival purposes. Movies and shows you watch often; games you’ve bought through GOG or Steam that you want to keep but don’t always want clunking around on a hard drive. I have an 8TB network drive that I throw more ephemeral files on. It also houses a bunch of ROMs.
I hope you’re using archival quality optical media, because burned retail discs can have a lifespan as short as 10 years
Pirate -> Add to HTPC -> underwatched media to a jbod of old ass spinning HDDs -> unwatched/hard to find media to BluRay cold storage.