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Storage?! In this economy!? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 4 months ago by 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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[–] 5 points 4 months ago (6 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.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (4 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    if you are also annoyed qbout the tracking and ads shit smart TVs pull off, you could by a mini-PC to fix all of these at once. making an IR remote work will be challenging, but if you go for plasma bigscreen, you can control it fine with kde connect on your phone.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (1 child)

    I block all of my smart TVs at the DNS level with my pi-holes. All of the benefits (native streaming apps, easy casting, a functional remote without any fuss, etc) without any of the ads or tracking.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months 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.

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