cue, not queue …

Should be standard operating procedure anyway…

Thanks for that, worth knowing.

True, but OP refers to ‘some cherished items’

I assumed the context here was torrenting rather than streaming, download blu-ray remuxes and encode to your liking.

A 16Tb manufacturer recertified drive is USD160 which should sort storage (and later get a second for offline backup). I’m actually holding out until I get GPU encode (apparently CPU is somewhat better, but power considerations, maybe next gen). Do wish the scene would get on with switching, though, are we dinosaurs?

Nah, I’m suggesting you actually use some human agency. I’ve found it pleasing, a couple of hours can often net thousands of hours of listening time. You’ve got a list to start from, why not give it a go ?

While I love the *arrs for video, I found Lidarr pretty damn awful, perhaps it’s OK with usenet but not torrent without specialised private trackers. Anywho, I found the Soulseek network, spiritual successor to Napster, which has most of everything, usually at high bitrate, and take pleasure hand curating a personal library. I like the Nicotine client. There’s so much more music than video that it makes sense to be choosy, I’m my own personal DJ…

I was here to say the same as pezhore, separating storage and compute is almost as important as separating church and state. Muck around, break things, have fun, all the while your data is safe (don’t forget offline backups though). The MS-01 is a fine looking box, but any old NUC / SFF will do for your purposes (modern AMD cpu or a graphics card if you need / want plex transcode).

Edit to add, old laptops are great compute nodes (maybe moreso from my ex corporate thinkpad laptop bias, but still)…

So, by way of answering my own question, I found this map, which lets you work it out for yourself. Interesting stuff.

Which brings me to the question of how to benchmark now that I can make good guesses. Speedtest to US and Europe?

ETA: For those that follow, what I did was spin up multiple gluetun instances, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, hook them to firefox with FoxyProxy (different ports, duh) and compare speeds on https://librespeed.org/. Bottom line was the bottleneck was my ISP (surprise!!)

Still, I suspect there are ways to leverage crap internet to useful torrenting.

I’d be going through Singapore to get to Japan, so I doubt that’d be better… Hmm maybe, after looking at the map, it might actually work out better, depends on how saturated the direct cable is I guess.

Fair enough. In that case, I’d just go for ones with a 5-year warranty and call it a day. At least you get a replacement if it fails.

More than one copy > ‘longevity’ in the marketing. Drives fail, make allowances. Realistically, it only has to last until you get an even bigger drive in a couple of years.

La la la la laI’m gonna start a fight

Well said.

F’in nintendo.

Good point, but if I’m going to the bother of transcoding remuxes to AV1, I’ll probably knock up a script, at least for the first while.

I’m resigned to probably giving up youtube (at least for a while, as the ad cat and mouse continues) in the not too distant future. Little of value will be lost… and going back to seeing ads is not worth the price.

Rather obvious that ‘What product did live up to its advertised claims?’ is a more useful question…

So far fine in FreeTube, touch wood.