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Not a help request, more of a statement.
My wife and I have had a few financial ups and downs recently, like everyone. As such my plans of building a server with 8-10tb of space for media storage is not likely anytime soon. I had to make the best of what I have, currently 2.4 tb total space backed up via snapraid. I was near maxing out, at 80% capacity and running out of space. We collect movies and tv shows ( all dvd ) and rip them and the media centers around the house are kodi based. We watch stuff daily, always have something running.
The point I was making as mentioned above is making due. I recently finished re-ripping our entire collection (520 movies, 1087 episodes of various tv shows) to a higher compression ratio with handbrake. Many will say compression is the devil, uncompressed only way to go. I think differently. I have solid vision to date and can see quite well. We watch stuff regularly, and I can say with all honesty that neither of us can tell a difference from watching something uncompressed straight off a disc vs compressed with handbrake. No perceptible difference.
Some can see it, we cannot. The point is, try it before you knock it. Don't automatically buy into "Uncompressed of bust" mindset, actually try it yourself. In my case by re-ripping our stuff I went from 80% usage of space to 40%, effectively saving us 200+ bucks to upgrade enough to matter. We now are using less than half our storage, plenty of space to fill yet. And again as mentioned, we can't see a difference.
My wife and I have had a few financial ups and downs recently, like everyone. As such my plans of building a server with 8-10tb of space for media storage is not likely anytime soon. I had to make the best of what I have, currently 2.4 tb total space backed up via snapraid. I was near maxing out, at 80% capacity and running out of space. We collect movies and tv shows ( all dvd ) and rip them and the media centers around the house are kodi based. We watch stuff daily, always have something running.
The point I was making as mentioned above is making due. I recently finished re-ripping our entire collection (520 movies, 1087 episodes of various tv shows) to a higher compression ratio with handbrake. Many will say compression is the devil, uncompressed only way to go. I think differently. I have solid vision to date and can see quite well. We watch stuff regularly, and I can say with all honesty that neither of us can tell a difference from watching something uncompressed straight off a disc vs compressed with handbrake. No perceptible difference.
Some can see it, we cannot. The point is, try it before you knock it. Don't automatically buy into "Uncompressed of bust" mindset, actually try it yourself. In my case by re-ripping our stuff I went from 80% usage of space to 40%, effectively saving us 200+ bucks to upgrade enough to matter. We now are using less than half our storage, plenty of space to fill yet. And again as mentioned, we can't see a difference.
