You say repeatedly that you never look at your old videos, you stress that over and over again that you have no interest in viewing them so I simply don't understand why you can't just reduce the quality and therefore the file size.
Handbrake has plenty of presets so you don't need to faff about with it. Open a video, select a preset and hit the go button. Don't even look at the output, it's irrelevant because you're never going to watch them anyway.
If ever you want to retrieve a video from YouTube, there are many utilities that will grab the highest resolution possible.
I've seen plenty of decent solutions suggested already but you're putting barriers up to every single one of them.
There have already been posts deleted from this thread. If you want to buy HDDs from other members then you need to post a thread in the
Wanted forum.
Hello Feek,
Firstly an apology if the way I post and what I post caused issue, I had no idea that posts were being deleted.
Every post in this thread has been valuable to me, this wasn't a topic trying to scam people out of hard drives or donations, this was me putting my problems out there and looking for solutions, by the very nature of what we have here a discussion some suggestions wouldn't work and I had to explain why, this was never meant to be me trashing anyones idea in fact I was very polite and explained in detail why such suggestions wouldn't work and I always thanked anyone who offered an idea.
Every post has helped and given ideas, none have been perfect but hopefully by the end of this post you will understand how they helped.
So let's deal with this in parts please be patient with me I will be as concise as possible.
Encoding, while the suggestions made were over complicated and my first solution to it (set 1023 of the biggest videos going) was the ultimate "Yay I don't have to think about it for 85 days wooohoo" but completely unrealistic, current plan is Handbrake mkv 1080/30fps which seems to save about 50-60% file size, will do a 10 video test over the next 2 days.
Why I keep them if I never view them, because my journey, my battle against cancer against grief and mental illness and autism inspires people, my use of games and technology, my talks about ADHD and game sessions where we stop half way through to discuss someone's problems and turn it into a discussion on mental well beings, those videos inspire people here is one of many messages left on my videos " You really make me appreciate my life and uplift me when I'm feeling down, thank you for that." this journey and these videos champion technology and gaming in a very important way.
Youtube has and does shutdown channels all the time for little or no reason can lock an account and remove your access for the silliest of rules that seem to change on the fly.
Every minute I am uploading is a minute I can't be streaming because unlike steam and suchlike, youtube when you upload videos and other platforms doesn't have a built in bandwidth limiter, thus any time I upload is time taken away from streaming and depending on whether it is a good or bad day that can be 6-12 hours a day that I need to be streaming.
But talking here got me thinking, now the Synology is in a better shape, I have a backup internet (you know streaming and such like being my lifesupport) didn't decide to go with the suggestions here because most of them are removing there base budget options, so instead I signed up for Amazon Glacier I will hook my backup (5g on the three network, hub) to my synology which has a glacier client and slowly using its upstream backup everything to the amazon cloud, I am still calculating the costs but I believe 10-20TB costs less than £20 per month).
Now as for Unraid, not practical in the next few months but, I have a pc case, a Gigabyte Z370P D3 motherboard, 5 1TB 2.5" laptop drives, 1 1TB 3.5" and 2 2TB 3.5 and 1 soon to be free 8TB western digital drive, It will take months to budget for a couple of sticks of ram a cpu and start sorting out sata cards. but as I said a future project.
I am also going to try and fun as an backup backup one of the Seagate 16TB 3 year emergency recovery external usb 3 drives, my idea is grab 16tb of videos, drop them on the drive disconnect it and keep it next door.
Do you see how valuable all of the discussions in this thread were and how grateful I am, this is still ongoing as a discussion, I am honestly thankful to you all and sorry if I caused any hassle.
, if that pc didn't die a death doing that and the electricity cost would probably pay for at least one more 4tb drive.
