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Dear Santa. Please bring me...
More harddrive space.
What are you asking for? |
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Health.
My health. My wife’s health. The health of our dogs. At this point everything else I want or need is pretty much obtainable. Lord grant us strength in our hearts, our bodies, and our minds. The heavy lifting I can handle. Actually, I look forward to it. |
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A Time Machine...I've been asking for a damn time machine for the last 10yrs and the wife has yet to deliver.
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I have seen a number of immensely wealthy friends get ill over the last year. Parkinson’s, stroke, cancer etc. I will give up coin if I ever had the choice. My friends all said the same thing. They put health and longevity over wealth.
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Nothing.
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I never sought out wealth. It comes in deserved amounts naturally to those who work hard and are honest/ethical. I do however still seek income. It makes spending a lot easier pill to swallow. Especially if you spend some exorbitantly. |
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I just want the health to enjoy this retirement my wife and I worked our entire lives for. |
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I bought my first PC in 1992, it had a 170 MG drive.
Have had countless DTs and LTs since, and have never even come close to filling a hard drive -- including that 170 MG. And I save anything and everything I want to save. And I've never bought top of the line, i.e. not the biggest nor 2nd biggest HD available. My current LT is about 15 months old, 1T capacity and has about 154M filled. How do you even manage to fill a hard drive? That's a serious question. In lieu of a bigger hard drive, I'll take one of these: |
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Everything is Bluray or 4k quality uncompressed except for some tv shows which only are available SD or 720p. My desktop is only a 1tb & 2tb NVME with a 6tb external hd. |
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12-11-2023, 9:26pm | #13 | ||||||
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Merlin 540 For my flat bottom jetboat
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Aside from that I didn't understand anything about your post. |
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My son back......then one of these .
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Hey Kingpin. What software is that you’re running? I have about 20TB free on my NAS and wouldn’t mind adding some movies like that. In what file format are they stored in?
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Mike, how well does Atmos or Dolby HD transfer? As discreet channels, I mean. Is there any compression or matrixing/downmixing of channels happen during the burn?
I have no experience with this stuff at all and have been collecting physical media for years with about 1400 titles of the highest quality available. I know that someday folks won't be able to watch an old Eastwood flick if their streaming service drops it. I've been thinking about setting up a NAS but it would really just be for convenience I think. Are there other benefits? Seems like it's pretty costly to setup with 4k movies being 20-40GB. Scott
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The best and most common software is called MakeMKV. You may have seen .mkv format mentioned in many places. It's free software and you have a choice if you want to compress or not. Plus when you rip the movie you get to remove stuff like multiple languages, audio formats or bonus features if you don't want them which all save space. I rip all my movies 1:1 so no compression at all and I remove all languages except English and I remove all bonus material. So when the rip is finished you have one .mkv file unless you add subtitles (.srt file) with absolute no compression. It's a lengthy process though and one thing to make sure you do is name the folder and file properly otherwise it makes it difficult and very time consuming for EMBY or PLEX to find all the information. When I started I had roughly 1700 Blurays and a few hundred DVD's and some TV sets. I had 2 internal Bluray drives and one external all going at the same time and it took me a year by the time I was done. I was also lucky as my 2 internal drives I never updated their firmware so they stayed unlocked and I was able to rip 4k's with them. Not all drives can read or allow you to rip 4k. What I suggest is rip BluRays and DVD's but not 4k movies. 4K are for serious watching so use the disk in your Oppo. Plus 4k are a bit more involved in ripping unless you are torrenting and downloading the files and they take up 3-4x the space. Convenience is the biggest plus. You just want to sit back and watch a movie or a tv series and you just press a button. Media servers like Plex or Emby remember where you left off if you shut off a movie and keep track of where you are when watching a tv series. It's not cheap to startup if you are going 1:1. Easiest way but more expensive is a NAS from Synology, Asustor, Qnap etc. I always suggest buying the largest capacity one you can afford to start and start filling it with drives. When I started years ago I had the money to burn. It cost $2500 for the NAS and another $2200 for drives plus another $1000 for a proper UPS to protect it all. 6 months later I added an expansion unit $2300 and $4000 in drives. Now if you are Computer Network and Storage literate you can do it for half the price but you need to know about RAID setups and a whole buncha other stuff I have no idea aboot. You pay for the user friendliness and easy setup when buying a NAS. First pic is my front end which I use Emby. It's a custom CSS I copied from someone else and changed for me. Second pic is the first 3 rows of my largest 4k movies. They range from 90gb's to 160gb's each. Roughly 80% of my 4K movies are over 60gb's each. Third pic on the bottom shows you some info. Size/bitrate/audio etc. Fourth pic is Expansion unit on top, NAS underneath and external drives below. On the bottom is a rackmount 1500w/1500va Pure Sinewave UPS. P.S. Don't forget about backups. RAID is not backup just temporary protection. I have 160tb's in external drives all hooked up also as backup. One file goes to my NAS and another goes to my backup. |
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Tomorrow. It should be on Corvette Blvd sometime today for stalkers with yellow pads...
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i still have my two front teeth, so how about a hippopotamus?
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