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200mb episodes are good enough! (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I watch a fair amount of series, but I'm not a data hoarder. I see the value in 2GB episodes, but I watch most series on my laptop, my simple 1920x1080 tv or even my phone where that value doesn't make a difference. If I want to have a theater experience, I'll go to the theater.

Most of the times I just want to enjoy a good story and relax before I go to bed.

I don't have infinite storage and I hate when I want to download something new, but Im out of storage, so I have to delete stuff first.

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 year ago (21 children)

Good enough for who? You? Sure. But not everyone watches on a small screen. Some people might actually care about the quality too. Some of us can't goto the theatre.

2GB isn't large by any stretch. There are 720p versions of pretty much everything (at least that's what I see on most Usenet Indexers). You could easily get a multiple terabyte external drive if your internal storage is full.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Yeah complaining about storage space in 2023 is a bit silly. You can go on eBay right now and get a used 4TB SATA drive for $25. Even cheaper if you get SAS drives, you just need a SAS expansion card which is also around $20 or so. 6TB SAS drives are going for $30.

ISP data caps are a bigger enemy than raw storage capacity these days. It costs me $50/mo to remove my 1TB cap. Which means it is more expensive to download 6TB than it is to buy 6TB of physical storage. And even SSDs are dirt cheap now. Storage has never been cheaper.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Am I the only one that doesn’t like the idea of used hard drives?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are not. I wouldn't trust a used hard drive in any way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not even in a zfs raidz2 of just 5 drives?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I am using unRAID so if one dies I can just replace it. About 4 years ago I bought a lot of fifteen 3TB SAS drives and I have had them running 24/7 since then. Funny enough not a single one has died. They all had around 5 years of power-on hours and now they are up to 9 and still going strong. Honestly I expected to lose at least one per year but they are surprisingly resilient.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Fair enough. Also using Unraid so I guess overall it's not a bad idea. I just need to actually get the damn things.

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