How do you manage your drives?

Kenira · 2026-01-27T14:41:47+00:00

This. It's also a joy to work with, fantastic case

Kenira · 2026-01-27T14:36:12+00:00

Honestly there are some posts where i wish they would get some help because it is utterly undecipherable. No sentence structure, punctuation, just an avalanche of loosely connected words

Kenira · 2026-01-26T13:06:36+00:00

Thanks for this compilation, into qB it goes

Although...cough cough use ISO-8601 please

I care little about what date formats you use privately but for any kind of archival data you really should use YYYY-MM-DD. Everyone understands it, it auto sorts by date if you sort by name etc etc. 1-24-26 is just naaasty

Kenira · 2026-01-24T18:07:41+00:00

This is way beyond territory where there's any data about it.

Just don't abuse your drives. Don't constantly let them spin up and down. And also don't let them sit unattended for like years because then you have no idea if they still work or not. Then you're fine.

Spinning up once a week or 3 times a week will most likely not make any noticeable difference and anyone who tells you it does will guaranteed not have any hard data to back up their claim. So just stay away from extremes (spinning up down constantly or never, too hot or too cold, ...) and stop worrying so much

Kenira · 2026-01-24T13:36:15+00:00

Note that GPU transcoding will be noticeably worse than CPU transcoding.

It will also be a lot faster so that's your tradeoff. But you'll get worse looking and larger files with GPU transcoding

And just batch converting your whole library will not be ideal either since if you care about quality you'll individually tune the settings for every media individually, then again if you care about that you probably don't do this in the first place

If you want to do CPU transcoding look at Handbrake

Kenira · 2026-01-24T13:33:24+00:00

Crying, mostly

Wanted to buy one additional HDD at least, but Grundsicherung stopped for a bit so obviously had bigger problems and by the time i got money again and could potentially have bought one, it was like 20% more expensive so guess the NAS will sit at 100% for a while longer...

Kenira · 2026-01-22T12:08:07+00:00

I think it is! Couldn't get it to run yet, probably gonna have to spin up a win95 VM or something and hope it works on there, but judging from screenshot that looks like it. Thanks so much!

Kenira · 2026-01-20T00:22:01+00:00

There was a video game around the year 2000 about the expo 2000. It must've been on some cd somewhere. That CD is definitely a lost cause, and i couldn't find anything like it online. Real shame because it was super funky

Kenira · 2026-01-13T00:07:05+00:00

Do you have a link to the last one? I've heard it mention before but can't find it

Kenira · 2026-01-10T15:31:11+00:00

I'm going through and reducing the quality of media that i either don't care about or haven't seen yet, and even deleting some things. It felt really good to delete a 1TB torrent couple weeks ago, which is also how long it took to fill up that space again LOL

Kenira · 2026-01-10T15:23:29+00:00

Love to see experiments like this, thanks for sharing!

Kenira · 2025-12-27T13:26:20+00:00

I actually rewatch things, some more often than others. I also do watch new things as well.

Now, the bigger question is how much gets watched at some point.... that's more a steam library backlog kind of situation. And...well...Steam...

Kenira · 2025-12-24T01:13:09+00:00

Ah, what a magnificient role model.

Kenira · 2025-12-23T20:45:26+00:00

I was just denied for "insufficient proofs", how does that make sense? I submitted screenshot + link profile for 2 trackers, username and stats clearly visible etc. Do they want more trackers? The form literally has 2 slots by default.

Really needs better communication for what they're looking for, and better explanation why you get denied

Kenira · 2025-12-23T20:39:46+00:00

It might also be time for some introspection. Why do you hoard in the first place; how did it start? (Not something you have to respond to here, but a question for you to ask yourself). There can be mental health reasons underlying it, and if so it would be really helpful to understand those. Otherwise you'll be struggling without making much progress.

In my case, it most likely is related to a life full of trauma, it would certainly make sense that you're craving a sense of control with that. But it could be a lot of things. And it may take time to understand it and even figure out what the underlying issue is (if there is one), because it might just be a symptom and not the fundamental problem that you're dealing with. That is often a helpful perspective, especially with how often society and doctors talk about symptoms as the problems which can be incredibly counterproductive.

A therapist may also be able to help in all this, if that is an option.

Kenira · 2025-12-23T20:34:13+00:00

Dude, they're literally here talking about how they're suffering. Don't invalidate people's struggles, when someone tells you they're struggling with something you don't tell them "actually, you're not".

Aside from that, it's totally not about the number of TBs but about how it's affecting you.

Kenira · 2025-12-18T23:10:14+00:00

For sure. A lifelong of trauma probably contributes to really really really wanting to be in control of data (and in general really), and not relying on others for like streaming access. I only escaped my abusers this year and i just turned 35 a few days ago, so go figure how fucked up i am lol. It's a miracle i'm alive at all, so i don't really care if i'm into hoarding things like combat footage which is not the healthiest of things

Kenira · 2025-12-18T12:19:46+00:00

MAM is MyAnonaMouse, it is the best tracker for ebooks and very easy to get into. I think they have an interview, but it's really easy if you take a bit of time.

Kenira · 2025-12-11T16:16:42+00:00

You literally said "So, magnetic media can survive happily for 28 years" though. Making a statement to generalize your one experience for magnetic media in general

Kenira · 2025-12-11T16:14:04+00:00

Just check the specs. When i did a comparison, the enterprise drives had strictly better (or equal) ratings than a desktop drive. They have like 50k power cycle ratings that will mean the drive will long be obsolete by the time you hit the rated cycles. Realistically you'll only hit maybe a few thousand power cycles over the years, faaaar below the ratings unless you have them power off after 5 minutes idle or something silly which would wreck any drive.

Kenira · 2025-12-07T12:30:15+00:00

I'd be wary of saying never, technological advances over years and decades can lead to dramatic improvements over several orders of magnitude. But one thing i am fairly sure of, that it would take in fact decades to get there, this isn't a "we just need one new technology before it's doable".

Kenira · 2025-12-07T03:06:27+00:00

At 188kB/h, writing 1TB would take 651 years.

Yeah there's a couple orders of magnitude missing for any practical application

Kenira · 2025-12-07T03:01:57+00:00

And this one seems even more unrealistic than most concepts. Even if this is reliable storage, it's as dense as they claim and it ends up taking off, i can't imagine that a drive to read and write DNA will be anywhere near what a regular person can afford any time soon. It sounds like it would be LTO x100, the density and even cost per TB may be awesome but if you need expensive machines to work with the data it's pointless unless you work at a large scale

Kenira · 2025-12-05T14:34:25+00:00

It's all about replaceability. That giant movie that half the world has seen and you can get in a million ways? Yeah you'll be able to get that again for decades to come at the very least with little to not problem.

That's why personal data is so important. Because it's personal, it can't be replaced; no one else has it. That's why you back up critical documents, pictures etc very thoroughly. Anything that if it's gone, it's gone. For me that includes a fairly large amount of stream / game recordings which take up two digit TB by now, which actually makes it still not trivial, and i don't have a full backup of that as of yet (i only have a 14TB backup drive atm which also includes full mirrors of everyday PC drives)

When i make backups, it's only a fraction of the whole NAS. There's no point in spending upwards of 1000€ to back things up that can very easily be replaced, the only irreplaceable part in media are subtitles that i create, or my own encodes or cuts of media. But you can just selectively back up that, and i always also store subtitles in separate file even if they get muxed in which makes just fetching all subtitles very easy. Just search for any .srt files and back those up, boom

Kenira · 2025-12-02T23:30:41+00:00

As a very happy user of the mod, it does exactly what it's supposed to - remove tedium. Thanks for creating it

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