Post AzLT51MrIh9cU5OvHk by usagi@moe.onl
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(DIR) Post #AzLJCviJCt5PivZBwG by EdBoatConnoisseur@poa.st
2025-10-18T19:05:06.330472Z
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maybe i should start buying 256GB sd cards to store my anime, movies and series there as my anime library is starting to really eat away at the storage space i got for my steam library.
(DIR) Post #AzLJjixrd2VBjtTow4 by pinemarten@poa.st
2025-10-18T19:11:02.080877Z
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@EdBoatConnoisseur I only started watching anime a few years ago and I'm up to 2.1TB on my NAS. I'm kind of a hoarder though. My future biographer will blame people like @deprecated_ii for poasting Nagatoro fan art and sparking my interest.
(DIR) Post #AzLK1BzkwmW0hNh7k8 by EdBoatConnoisseur@poa.st
2025-10-18T19:14:11.497082Z
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@pinemarten @deprecated_ii yeh, once i got a stable income i will build a NAS running a jellyfin server, just not sure if going for the cheap idiot approach of getting some cheap broken laptop to use as the server and just attach a bunch of drives to it, or do build a more server form factor thing...
(DIR) Post #AzLKSkxj31Lgxyt8LY by pinemarten@poa.st
2025-10-18T19:19:10.184714Z
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@EdBoatConnoisseur @deprecated_ii I think you can do it with a Raspberry Pi, but the real expense will be storage drives. And backup drives. I have a Synology NAS, but those are not particularly cheap.One heads up, Jellyfin has a weakness where if you have an anime series, with all the episodes in a folder, Jellyfin will usually not display the episode number in its browser, even if the files are all named ep1.mp4, ep2.mp4 etc. This is a known bug. I've tried to get Jellyfin to work a couple of times, since it is a more independent system for self hosting than Plex, but I've not succeeded. So I'm stuck with Plex, even though you have to have an account with them.
(DIR) Post #AzLKgOe8oYMToEERH6 by deprecated_ii@poa.st
2025-10-18T19:21:38.086135Z
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@EdBoatConnoisseur don't trust SD cards for anything longer than a few months. they're extremely unreliable over timejust buy cheap 2.5" drives and use a USB to SATA adapter
(DIR) Post #AzLKmBND4n86Ng4UE4 by EdBoatConnoisseur@poa.st
2025-10-18T19:22:41.057489Z
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@pinemarten @deprecated_ii eh is not like i can't just attach the network storage as a mount over network on my laptop, i'm not really doing much streaming anyway as i got only 1 smart tv on the house.
(DIR) Post #AzLKwotF0dJlpr7s92 by RustyCrab@clubcyberia.co
2025-10-18T19:24:34.801893Z
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@deprecated_ii @EdBoatConnoisseur I am not an expert on the matter but ive been told SATA drives are also prone to corruption over USB ports. Reason being that they were made to go into a slot with consistent power and data connection, not something that's flaky. A good example of this is for some SATA drives performing a secure erase instruction over USB can brick it forever In other words probably get a proper external disk
(DIR) Post #AzLLYNqc0648y8o9tQ by EdBoatConnoisseur@poa.st
2025-10-18T19:31:23.692279Z
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@RustyCrab @deprecated_ii been thinking of the sd cards (well micro sd with adapter) for a couple of reasonsthey seem reliable enough for cellphone storage when formatted in ext4.locally 256GB micro sd cards (with their adapter included) are at 20 bucks flat.the idea is i'd have my media library on an sd card binder.
(DIR) Post #AzLLejjTXuSua6V1TE by RustyCrab@clubcyberia.co
2025-10-18T19:32:31.277672Z
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@EdBoatConnoisseur @deprecated_ii I've had universally bad luck with SD cards shitting out on me and they are also extremely slow. I wouldn't keep any data on there that doesn't have two backups
(DIR) Post #AzLLpq1KVXXpGi8zom by EdBoatConnoisseur@poa.st
2025-10-18T19:34:32.941671Z
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@RustyCrab @deprecated_ii would be just anime and movies, may even start doing it for music too
(DIR) Post #AzLMI6nRjD2bPI8A3U by deprecated_ii@poa.st
2025-10-18T19:39:38.535374Z
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@EdBoatConnoisseur @RustyCrab don't leave anything on an SD card you're not willing to lose :02_shrug:
(DIR) Post #AzLMS7pMkYZ1V4nxlQ by EdBoatConnoisseur@poa.st
2025-10-18T19:41:28.187861Z
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@deprecated_ii @RustyCrab i got a phone i've been using as a bluetooth music player since maybe 2017 and the music there still plays no problem
(DIR) Post #AzLMxBx5St8TGlEKC8 by eee@poa.st
2025-10-18T19:23:38.134745Z
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@EdBoatConnoisseur sd cards are consumables and not an archive option, go collect spinning rust
(DIR) Post #AzLN5wJ900pHM7iap6 by pinemarten@poa.st
2025-10-18T19:48:39.872838Z
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@EdBoatConnoisseur @deprecated_ii @RustyCrab I know that USB sticks have widely varying quality , from MILSPEC/Medical approval to crappy consumer grade with lots of field failures. So I guess I'd be careful. These SSDs are $150, I own a couple of them w/o problems "SanDisk 2TB Extreme Portable SSD - Up to 1050MB/s, USB-C, USB 3.2 Gen 2" .
(DIR) Post #AzLNrtX6cRUyeM7DqC by mischievoustomato@tsundere.love
2025-10-18T19:57:17.979676Z
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@EdBoatConnoisseur learn about av1 (or grind your cpu with h266) to compress further if needed. Opus audio too.
(DIR) Post #AzLO5UMyyLISf4rXbE by sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party
2025-10-18T19:59:45.013221Z
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@RustyCrab @deprecated_ii @EdBoatConnoisseur there's a reason the switch 2 just uses NVMe in an SD form factor (and high end digital cams just use larger cards that can dissipate heat more): SD is only so fast.
(DIR) Post #AzLOB0qZeMB4ptL0Cm by sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party
2025-10-18T20:00:45.409474Z
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@RustyCrab @deprecated_ii @EdBoatConnoisseur 3.5 drives get consistent 12v power, 2.5 rely on the USB port and that's where I'm sure the dodginess lies.
(DIR) Post #AzLS6jzwkdMnEqwMFM by EdBoatConnoisseur@poa.st
2025-10-18T20:44:50.106355Z
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@mischievoustomato Yeh I should probably start re-encoding my anime collection before moving it to different storage anyway
(DIR) Post #AzLSDsW9TTkxgjPJoG by EdBoatConnoisseur@poa.st
2025-10-18T20:46:07.477821Z
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@sendpaws @RustyCrab @deprecated_ii Wish sd card form factor nvme drives were more consumer available.
(DIR) Post #AzLSzpN4TZztpV1Xua by sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party
2025-10-18T20:54:43.561577Z
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@EdBoatConnoisseur @RustyCrab @deprecated_ii The Switch 2 made them available and theres bridges between both.https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1915669-REG/pny_p_sdu512p31exp_ge_512gb_microsd_express_memory.html?ap=y&smp=Yhttps://github.com/NVNTLabs/switch2-SDEX2M2
(DIR) Post #AzLT51MrIh9cU5OvHk by usagi@moe.onl
2025-10-18T20:53:57.351Z
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@sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party @deprecated_ii@poa.st @EdBoatConnoisseur@poa.st @RustyCrab@clubcyberia.co That 12V power is unfortunately often also flaky, especially weird multi-pin connectors.When doing a lot of disk imaging I found some of those trapdoor-style docks work best. The reason is probably they have one plain 12V barrel jack, and the 5V and 3.3V is generated internally. Also using one drive in two-drive dock probably helped with not overloading the power brick.
(DIR) Post #AzLT52GVxlfpGhRN2G by sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party
2025-10-18T20:55:39.739587Z
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@usagi @deprecated_ii @EdBoatConnoisseur @RustyCrab I mostly see 12v barrel jacks now, and the PSUs are universalCase in point; I can use one to power up a synth I have.
(DIR) Post #AzLUFbi38ZvU2vvO4W by BroDrillard@nicecrew.digital
2025-10-18T19:59:10.502458Z
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I also have a couple of those Sandisk Portable SSDs. No problems so far.Also consider:20x 256GB (2.5 TB) micro SD cards = $2501x 20 TB external HD = $230 -- for 8x the storage capacity
(DIR) Post #AzLUFcYVzVtSfeTHqi by EdBoatConnoisseur@poa.st
2025-10-18T21:08:49.801261Z
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@BroDrillard @pinemarten @RustyCrab @deprecated_ii Okay, that is finally a compelling argument about my want for cheapness being more expensive in the long run