Edit0: I’m disappointed that some people that take time to comment don’t seem to take time to read the whole post. Then, perhaps, they would realize that this post is not an SSD vs. HDD discussion, that using HDDs are out of question with my current living situation and that I just wanted to vent among peers.
Edit1: While I’m not judging - I myself recently moved to my current apartment for the very sake of being able to seed nonstop - I’m disappointed at how some of the commenters don’t take seeding for granted in a pirating community.

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.

  • DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    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.

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      3 months ago

      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

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        3 months ago

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