That’s what I miss most about Hastings Entertainment going out of business a few years ago. I was always selling them my used DVDs and Blu-rays when I upgraded or decluttered and they paid fair market value most titles. Now there are no shops here that will buy used discs.
Since most people at home do not run a fault-tolerant server with a raid 10 array and hot swappable disks, I usually recommend a three-tiered backup plan.
Tier 1 is local backup to an external drive. I actually have two drives: One has two partitions - the first being purely data (music...
I used to trade in my old discs for store credit at Hastings Entertainment when I upgraded or if I had some titles that I never watched. I’m glad I did my last big purge before Hastings closed a few years ago. After they went out of business, EntertainMart (known as Vintage Stock or V-Stock in...