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How much "data" do you personally have?
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Given that a movie can be between 1GB and 50GB depending on source and compression used, you can't know that. You can find game of thrones downloads that are 30GB per episode. At 1080. If you go for high quality with a nzb setup, it fills up really fast.
Also my setup is used by multiple people and that's probably fairly common. So maybe "I" can't watch that much, but "we" can.
And who does that? I mean, that's just a huge cost for what? Slightly sharper nipples on screen?
How often do you think, you'll watch, say GoT? Twice? Why bother building half a data center in your house for the off chance that you might, at some point, maybe want to consider to watch that one movie again?
It's a hobby, I get that. But arguing that it's useful is like saying you're restoring that 50s car in your garage for driving to work or grocery shopping. We all know, that's not the reason.
Some people just want lossless media.
And saying it's a huge cost... 60TB in a raid 5 setup will cost you less than $2k. That's really not much for most US households. Especially when that setup lasts for years.