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[–] 34 points 2 months ago (13 children)

I have a 60TB disk pool with DrivePool software and have no place to put my data and create a Linux based pool. I have to wait until I can afford a new 20TB disk as a temp storage.

Unless there is an easy way to convert a DrivePool to mergerfs etc.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (11 children)

    How much data do you have, and are the drives identical? Usually I do in-place conversions by taking some drives offline, creating a degraded raid on them, migrating the data, then wiping the remaining drives and bringing them online in the new raid.

    Works for zfs pools too, but you can't create a pool with missing drives, you have to create a temporary block device then mark it offline, then replace it with the real drive once it's free.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    Heh wow its been awhile since I checked my storage. Lol I forgot I added a bunch last year. Its actually at 116TB now with 13 free.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    Wow! I thought my NAS was loaded, but good lord. What are you storing?

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

    Linux ISOs 🏴‍☠️

    I run my family's Streaming Service.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Me too, but my library must not be nearly as impressive.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Some of the more high quality 4k releases (even 1080p ones) just gobbles up storage. I had to settle for the more optimized releases since I just have a 8tb external drive. Wanted to build a nas but man they are expensive, both a good nas and even the basic hard disks. Can't wait for the bubble to pop.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    Some of the more high quality 4k releases (even 1080p ones) just gobbles up storage.

    I'm scratching my head here. Are they just being sloppy and inconsiderate?

    The biggest video file I have is a fan edit of the hobbit trilogy. It's 4 hours of 720p at 8 gigabytes. Why?

    I'm just starting to experiment with Jellyfin, and I'm considering shrinking that down. I'm good with whatever format fit 90 minutes onto a 700MB video file that could be burned to a CD.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    Compression will almost always compromises on quality. You can often notice the artifacts on scenes with lot of moving particles and such. So if you can afford the extra storage then that would definitely be the better option. At what stage do you consider them good enough is a very personal choice and the difference in quality often diminishes a lot as you go up. If you are happy with smaller releases then that's perfectly fine too.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    If you're not wanting Remux Rips I'd really suggest converting your files to H.265, it's got much better compression ratios than H.264. You can set up tdarr or fileflows (fileflows is much easier if you don't want to write the ffmpeg yourself) to run through your library and automatically run conversions on new files. I use it to also strip foreign language tracks from files where it's neither the primary track nor original language

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Unless there is an easy way to convert a DrivePool to mergerfs etc.

    If I understood right, it's just software joining together multiple NTFS drives. When you open in another os it's just a normal NTFS drive

    You could take two drives and create a raid1 (right? Or yolo without redundancy?) btrfs array. Move stuff from one drive, when it's empty, format it as btrfs and add it to the array. Repeat for every drive.

    But....

    With this much data I wouldn't risk if you don't have experience with btrfs via cli

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