When I began building my server rig - which includes my torrenting setup - last year, I was able to find the 4TB 2.5 inch SATA SSD Samsung 870 EVO for about €300. I bought four of them, but now, I'm running out of space, so I checked a couple of retailers. Wowee. What is going on with these prices. 😂 Even Micron's Crucial brand, which at some point was the more affordable option, is way past it's curfew. 🤬

I just wanted to vent.

Since I'm one of those people who'd rather sleep in an anechoic chamber or at the very least use white noise or the likes in order to sleep, running HDDs doing random reads and writes next to my bed in my single room apartment is not a option.

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[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 28 minutes ago

I'd just delete older stuff you've already watched, unless it's something you plan on re-watching at least.

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 32 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Just in case you didn't know, this is yet another garbage effect from AI slop being pushed everywhere.

[–] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 15 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I did know that AI data centers have driven up RAM prices. Didn't know that they have done the same to storage prices. :( F*ck AI.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 6 points 2 hours ago

Using SSD is going to cost a lot more for the same storage and not really gain anything.

I use SSD for the drives that host VMs since they're quieter when "running" and have a lower power consumption than my spinning disk drives when running.

This allows my storage drives to spin down.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 1 hour ago

this is a hilarious thing to complain about given the use case

[–] upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Are you data hoarding? The easiest way to save money on drive space is to get rid of media you aren't watching or games you aren't playing

[–] mrnobody@reddthat.com 4 points 2 hours ago

Data hoarding with only 16TB?! scratches head

I've got: 10x 8TB drives (Raid5 with 8 and 2 spare) 8x 16TB drives in 2x 4-disc Raid5 (no spares yet) These 3 storage pools are for Plex/ Jellyfin (movies, TV, misc)

In another "lower power" server, some older 3TB x8 in Raid6 for files and pictures and whatnot.

I've been backing up data for family since the windows vista days, everyone so far has been happy to have stuff archived. Mostly I just back up their physical hard drives or their own backup drives.

[–] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 4 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

No, I'm just torrenting. Video only. Music I stream and games I buy. So for now, we're talking 15TB of series and movies.

[–] ResistingArrest@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Yes but how regularly are you watching any given terabyte of video? You should look into getting some kind of data on what media is accessed and if it hasn’t been accessed in something like 30 days, get rid of it.

[–] mrnobody@reddthat.com 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You must be young and don't understand seeding lol. Probably on Torrentio or Streamio or whatever.

[–] exu@feditown.com 3 points 40 minutes ago

Curating what content you download is completely unrelated to how long you seed it.

[–] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

I know that, but I also want to keep seeding. It's a balance, I guess. But perhaps I could remove that which I haven't watched for 90 days and whose share ratio has reached 1.0 or that hasn't changed for 90 days. That way, I can enjoy having the files around and keep seeding that which has some popularity.

[–] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

You could get some big hdds and move the things there you aren’t seeding anymore, so they won’t be active unless you’re watching something from them.

[–] ResistingArrest@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

If you’re really interested in having all of the media locally, this is probably the move for you. I’m a big proponent for paying for a debrid service & using stremio + torrentio and only downloading locally what I KNOW I’m gonna watch again.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

You could consider running your collection through Handbrake. It's pretty easy to shed 90% of video file size while barely losing any noticeable quality.

[–] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 4 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Wow! I'm saving this regardless. Great "GUI" for ffmpeg and whatnot. Thanks for the recommendation! I'm extremely picky about quality, watching everything on my 43 inch 4K TV. Banding in dark areas and gradations are the worst. XD

[–] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah “just running it through handbrake” is a great way to make things look much worse. Encoding is pretty complicated

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

I routinely reduce size 50%-70% and play it on a 65" 4k TV and you can't tell the difference.

Sometimes I can actually improve the original video by applying noise reduction.

As for power - it really depends on your hardware and what you're trying to do. Since I use an Intel SFF desktop, I have the option of using QSV for conversion and my rig peaks at 80 watts. Not that my peak matters because QSV is very power efficient and fast - takes perhaps 20 min to convert a 6GB video to 1-2 GB.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 minutes ago

Using AMD VCE, I've been able to do the same with a remux, taking it from 33GB down to 5GB. My first attempt on that one got the file size all the way down to 3GB but there was some rough artifacting on the studio logos at the start and intro credits. I decided the extra 2GB was worth it for that minor bump. Bizarrely, the rest of the film seemed fine but I could have missed something since I didn't bother with a full watch.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

Spoken like someone who has no clue how to use Handbrake.

[–] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 3 hours ago

If your gonna do it I would use something like tdarr which is designed for that purpose, but honestly, thats a huge waste of power and time in my opinion. Best solution long term is to just delete and re-download. It will be a constant problem for you otherwise. You will always need more storage.

[–] hoohoohoot@fedinsfw.app 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I didnt even know prices could go up like this

I wanted to share all of movies (which I think is also legal here by the way) with people not just over clarnet, but also I2P for anonymity so no one can judge what you watch

I wished for +50TB setup

[–] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 3 points 4 hours ago

Here is just one of many guides. Let me know how it turned out! :D

When I want to share files with people who aren't technologically inclined, I encrypt the file and file headers with 7-zip, upload it to my cloud under a random filename and just share the link with the people.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I had 4 of those nice things 4tb evos... Same model. Two died after a few years of being on use 24/7 in my server.... Maybe three years?

Replaced with 6tb hdds and quite happy

[–] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago

Maybe I'll end up doing the same. Maybe I'll buy a properly soundproofed chassi and put it in the kitchen or something. XD