Also the time it takes to re-encode it depending on how fast your system is.
And my own time.
You can save around 10 - 20 GB with just choosing main untouched movie and HD audio.
And that takes me on my N40L like 5 minutes.
And the cost off a hard drive isn't that much anymore.
150 euro for a 4 TB red.
Quality about re-encoded movies depends on what kind off movie it is,
Fast action movie you will see it sooner if you compress it to much,
Especially with dark scenes.
With a drama where not much happens you probably notice it less or not at all.
Taking time and cost in mind in my opinion a remux would be the best option.
Re-encoding a movie cost also extra power because most cpu will max out.
(2014-12-28, 10:19)Dark_Slayer Wrote: [ -> ] (2014-12-27, 10:48)skylarking Wrote: [ -> ]A 2TB disk cost me $200
What the? 3TB is easy to find around $90 and I've been picking up 4TB for around $135 recently
Yeah, I bough that HDD (which is actually a Seagate Expansion USB3 desktop drive) quite some months ago and it was considered cheap at the time.
But because of where i live, i see lots of prices on the net i simply can not get from local retail
And i prefer to deal with local retailers as i have betetr warranty/support options available.
Even today, a WD Red 4TB @ $230 is considered a cheap local retail price, and that's from a specialist computer store.
Go to the non specialist consumer retails stores and you'd pay much more.
No doubt others can buy a HDD for a much lower price elswhere on this globe but here the word "gouging" comes to mind...
But the reality is whatever i pay, it's based on the market i live in.
I'll pay more for a 2TB HDD than i pay i'll for a 1 TB HDD, more again for a 4TB than a 2TB and yet even more for a 6TB.
The same dynamics exist in all markets where the cost of HDD's are proportianal to size and the $ value is related to the market.
For me, it still doesn't change the eqation much as HDD are getting bigger and cheaper, much like flat pannel TV's.
As such i really can't be bothered to reencode my BD rips (as yet).
I bought the hgst 4tb nas drive for $135 off newegg with a $25 checkout discount for using masterpass that coincided with a sale day. I have seen the Toshiba and Seagate 3TB drives go $90 regularly. Never had to ship or shop EU, so maybe that's the discrepancy. I have liked Hitachi drives for a long time, and hgst after IBM sold them off. This last one was my first hgst purchase since they became wholly owned by WD, and I don't really prefer the performance of WD drives (except blacks which are too $$$). Haven't actually put the drive to use yet, so I can't say whether I'll stick with the new hgst
You don't need 7200 rpm drivers for streaming,
My eco green drives of samsung are fast enough for blu-ray streaming.
Backblaze had a interesting test with the WD red vs the Seagate nas drives that run at 5900 rpm.
In which country do you live that it's so hard to buy hard drives ?
(2014-12-30, 08:12)TRaSH Wrote: [ -> ]You don't need 7200 rpm drivers for streaming,
My eco green drives of samsung are fast enough for blu-ray streaming
Exactly right. I don't prefer better performance for the sake of blu-ray playback. It's just a nice all around improvement for me since I can always find slightly higher performing drives for about the same price as their lower-performing green/red counterparts
In my experience all the non-enterprise model consumer drives I've used have a "low energy" even when spinning mode. One of the drive's I have a lot of is the HGST 7k4000. It's rated at something like 10W, but I've inhibited idle drive spin-down and not seen an increase of Nx10W in power consumption at the wall. They end up using more like 3W unless I'm hammering them with a file operation, even with spindown inhibited (and I can hear that they aren't spun-down
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(2014-12-30, 08:12)TRaSH Wrote: [ -> ]In which country do you live that it's so hard to buy hard drives ?
Don't think that's intended for me, just checking . . . it's quite easy for me to buy drives in the US
(2014-12-30, 07:58)Dark_Slayer Wrote: [ -> ]I have liked Hitachi drives for a long time, and hgst after IBM sold them off. This last one was my first hgst purchase since they became wholly owned by WD..
Toshiba ended up with Hitachi's 3.5" HDD business, not WD.
(2014-12-30, 17:03)Stereodude Wrote: [ -> ]Toshiba ended up with Hitachi's 3.5" HDD business, not WD.
Hmm. Looks like I was mistaken. Who made the drive I just bought I wonder? HGST is still on the market until their last batches are all sold then?
I think current "HGST, A WD Company" drives are really just WD drives with a different label on them, but I can't say for sure.
(2014-12-30, 08:12)TRaSH Wrote: [ -> ]In which country do you live that it's so hard to buy hard drives ?
For me, it's not that it's hard to buy HDD's, just that it costs more $$ than in other places on this globe...
Even with sales prices, we don't get close to US prices
As for where i live, lets just say its some last century backwater country... with politicians to suit...
If Dark_Slayer's prices are indicative of US proces, guess i'll have to get over my dislike for buying on the web
i live in the netherlands and our prices are almost 1:1 with the US prices but then in euro's.
so it''s like 1.21 X expensiver then in the US and we don't get like those rebat like with newegg.
don't know what "last century backwater country... with politicians to suit.." would be,
but that could be just me
i don't need to make a secret where i live.
(2014-12-31, 08:31)skylarking Wrote: [ -> ] (2014-12-30, 08:12)TRaSH Wrote: [ -> ]In which country do you live that it's so hard to buy hard drives ?
For me, it's not that it's hard to buy HDD's, just that it costs more $$ than in other places on this globe...
Even with sales prices, we don't get close to US prices
As for where i live, lets just say its some last century backwater country... with politicians to suit...
If Dark_Slayer's prices are indicative of US proces, guess i'll have to get over my dislike for buying on the web
Though a lot of the time when you buy online from the US you then get hit by high shipping charges, VAT and additional charges for the courier processing the VAT charges... (Assuming you don't have to also pay import duty) Well those of us in the UK do - and I imagine the rest of the EU is similar.
So after a long time working on my blurays I only have my big box sets left. Those are the Star Wars complete saga, Aliens Anthology, Matrix collection, and the Lord of the rings extended box set. I'm not gonna count my bluray box set of Lost because I need to get my big hard drive before I rip those episodes. But after that I will pretty much be done.
I also have the Stargate series and X-files series but not sure if I'm gonna do those since they are on dvd.
I decided to reduce my movies because I really didn't notice a difference in audio and visual quality on my computer with the movies. For some reason, I'm not sure if it's my cup or what, some movies can go through handbrake in an hour or two. But I have a handful that take a whole lot longer. I had my computer running over night and Aliens has taken 13.5 hours to compress.
So I found three movies that were completely pointless to run through Handbrake. I have the foreign version of The Lady with the Dragon Tattoo and the sequels. When ripping them with MakeMKV they came in at around 17gb. I figured handbrake would compress it to probably around 5gb. Turns out all it did was reduce it by 1gb for some reason. So I'm not even gonna bother with the other two movies.
I used to do this every time but now I don't. Ever since XBMC starting bitstreaming DTS-HD audio properly I have been MakeMKV dumping.