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That is the unfortunate thing, hosting your own media does take storage, but I still think overall it would be cheaper depending on the amount of storage and how much you are spending on Streaming services. A quick look says people are spending $100 or so on services each month. So $1,200 a year. You can easily build a 30tb array and the NAS for under that, even with today's outrageous prices, as as you find more storage, expand upon it. 30tb is going to host a whole lot of media. Let's say the average 30 minute TV show is 0.5 gb and a movie is 2gb, you can store something like 20,000 TV episodes and 10,000 movies. I think you'd be just fine, and that's a payback of one year. And you can easily share that with your friends and family without paying additional fees.
Stremio is piracy so has no cost.
Paying for a debrid service is optional, you can use a VPN instead, but debrid just makes it cleaner since that is built into many of the addon options.