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Storage?! In this economy!? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 day ago by Smurfi@lemmy.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hey all you beautiful selfhosters,

What are your suggestions for frugally obtaining HDDs in the current economic climate? Specifically the EU (Netherlands).

I'm looking at second hand drives, but even those go for €100+ now, with bad sectors and all.

Can we organise a collective AI datacenter robbery and doll out some stolen drives? 😁

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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

You don’t even necessarily need to delete either. If you have a ton of H.264 video you could convert it to 265 or AV1 with minimal quality loss, but huge space savings.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 2 points 6 hours ago

If you torrent that means stopping seeding tho

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

My only complaint is that lots of my streaming devices don’t natively support newer codecs. So if I convert everything to AV1, my server will end up transcoding basically everything. Smart TVs are particularly bad about supporting anything past h264.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 16 hours ago

I really want to go AV1 too. Most of what I play is airplayed from my ipad to whatever so I only need my iPad to support it. But I'm not buying an iPad air just to airplay AV1.

But H265 has been prevalent for about 10 years now so basically any smart TV made in the last 3 years should support it. And if yours don't then any el cheapo smart tv stick should.