How do you stream it if nobody downloads it to seed things? The whole premise of seed ratios isn't just a bragging score, it's aiding the communal health.

Besides, I have around 60 TB of space here, that'll hold several versions of damn near every Linux distro out there for a while, it'd be a shame to waste it.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Ratio is also for bragging ;)
Just as a side effect.

[–] tfowinder@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

60 TB is really great.

Planning on creating such setup. Mind sharing your current setup and howw you maintain it ?

I am thinking which drives and what size and backup system to use.

[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just part of a lab built over the years. Primary storage is a Dell R730XD filled mostly with 12 TB drives all set up in a ZFS array comprised of mirror vdevs, so redundant by default plus the built in ZFS snapshots for the rare need for a rollback on a dataset.

It only recently got that big because I had a mixed set of drives going back years and finally decided to work on getting them all to the same size and picked 12 as a good cost/volume balance, can find them at used server parts shops for a bit over $100 each.

Major risk is I don't have a good auto alert for smart monitor issues, so just make sure to occasionally manually copy the vital stuff like photos to an external drive.

[–] FLOOF@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have a 1tb hd. And a 1 tb backup. Manually switch on backups.

[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 2 points 2 days ago

That's pretty well what I started with 20 years or so ago, had them in some little box with some funny Nvidia CPU. That go upped to a pair of 3 TB that have somewhere around 10 years uptime on them if I recall by now, and kind of spiraled from there. Rsync on a schedule is nice for that.

[+] Beacon@fedia.io -7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm not talking about streaming it from p2p, I'm talking about streaming it from pirate sites that make money on ads (which i have blocked)

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Those get taken down on a regular basis. Not to mention the atrocious bitrates that is all they can manage.

Meanwhile, a high quality BluRay rip on my drive ain't going anywhere.

[–] borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I am an addict and my addiction is 4k UHD remuxes. When that uncompressed bitrate hits the screen, 👌. My Lawrence of Arabia remux is the largest I have off the top of my head and it’s like 125GB.

When I realized that theaters get DCP’s that are like 2-4 times the bitrate of a Blu-ray disk I died a little inside. I want those.

[–] TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

When I realized that theaters get DCP’s that are like 2-4 times the bitrate of a Blu-ray disk I died a little inside. I want those.

Theater DCPs are notorious for having insane amounts of DRM - you'd need a quantum computer to decrypt it, and even if you could there's invisible watermarks all over the screen identifying the exact location and time that the movie was playing in, the studio would immediately find out and sue you for everything you have. Not to mention the theater that played it would lose their license and go out of business.

So, for the most part, movie theaters are the only instance where DRM actually won.

But, to my knowledge, there have only been two movies that got their DCPs leaked, and even then, they were old movies released decades ago. One of them is a war movie, and the other one is an animated movie - PM me for details.

[–] Ilandar@lemm.ee 9 points 3 days ago

Because the quality is terrible. All of those streaming sites are pulling from the same hosting sources, and are usually very low quality YIFY rips (or an equivalent).

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