Edit0: I'm disappointed that some people that take time to comment don't seem to take time to read the whole post. Then, perhaps, they would realize that this post is not an SSD vs. HDD discussion, that using HDDs are out of question with my current living situation and that I just wanted to vent among peers.
Edit1: While I'm not judging - I myself recently moved to my current apartment for the very sake of being able to seed nonstop - I'm disappointed at how some of the commenters don't take seeding for granted in a pirating community.

When I began building my server rig - which includes my torrenting setup - last year, I was able to find the 4TB 2.5 inch SATA SSD Samsung 870 EVO for about €300. I bought four of them, but now, I'm running out of space, so I checked a couple of retailers. Wowee. What is going on with these prices. 😂 Even Micron's Crucial brand, which at some point was the more affordable option, is way past it's curfew. 🤬

I just wanted to vent.

Since I'm one of those people who'd rather sleep in an anechoic chamber or at the very least use white noise or the likes in order to sleep, running HDDs doing random reads and writes next to my bed in my single room apartment is not a option.

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[–] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah “just running it through handbrake” is a great way to make things look much worse. Encoding is pretty complicated

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I routinely reduce size 50%-70% and play it on a 65" 4k TV and you can't tell the difference.

Sometimes I can actually improve the original video by applying noise reduction.

As for power - it really depends on your hardware and what you're trying to do. Since I use an Intel SFF desktop, I have the option of using QSV for conversion and my rig peaks at 80 watts. Not that my peak matters because QSV is very power efficient and fast - takes perhaps 20 min to convert a 6GB video.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Spoken like someone who has no clue how to use Handbrake.