I’ve left wigh 10 gb in my hd, almost 300 gb in my hd are occupied by culturally relevant films (in hig deifinition) that in the future (I bielieve, and I’m afraid) won’t be so easy to find and thus I am reluctant to delete.
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Out of curiousity, some of the movies are: Fellini’s 8 and a half; Metropolitan by whit stillman; Lust; by Ang Lee; Ice storm by Ang lee; The Dresser by Peter Yates; Another woman, by woody allen;
I cannot right now buy and external HD (that in the long distance I will surely loose in the profoudities of a cupboard), is there any solutions, safe and cheap to keep them somewhere online and made them available to anyone somewhere that is interested to watch them?
Thanks to anyone who will want to help me.
Have a nice day!
I don’t know why no one mentioned it yet, but those are very well known movies, albeit old, and will probably remain pretty easy to find in the near future.
If you still want to hold on to them you could download handbrake. This software lets you shrink a file size by a lot depending on the settings you’re working with, and how much you want to compromise the quality.
Also in terms of cost, local storage will always be cheaper than web, mostly due to the fact that cloud storage is paid periodically, while you can buy a decent sized SSD for 40 euros
A lot of those are huge directors so I’m not sure they’ll be lost. You could torrent though and share around.
yeah, check if any of them haven’t been made availbale through torrenting. at least try to seed the rest.
either delete the data, or move it.
those are really your only options. if the drive you’re talking about is the only one in your PC, it needs some free space to do it’s thing. mechanical hard drives are pretty cheap and abundant. check with whatever is local to you, about used ones if you need something on the cheap. even new ones in the 1TB range are pretty cheap though.
Online storage ? Several hosts are based on nextcloud.
Find some big school, and ask them if IT have any hdd unused in storage, we replaced all hdd with ssd in a 500 computer parc, so we had plenty of hard drive to spare, they were 500gb but it seems good enough for you, they can probably give them for free if they are cool guys. Of cours use them only as backup, as they are more prone to fail
thanks, I’ve never thought of it, but the won’t never do such things, that would have seen as ‘peculato’. Here in Italy where corruption is a major problems that is an hyperlegislation to avoid it. Peculato would be, I believe, in English embezzlement
If you cant get a new hdd now, i would at least try to get one soon.
What about sharing them on some (or more than one) p2p network?
This is the main problem, the lacuna between people who can use technolgy and ppl who cant’. How do I do it?
I’ll help you, dm me.
Used HDD’s are crazy cheap on eBay and such since everyone’s moving to SSD.
You can never trust it for long term archival / to stay intact for a long period though.
HDD’s have been trusted for decades. Especially with S.M.A.R.T. enabled. Also in this case each sector would be written to like once. Should last several years easily.
did not know that. Thanks a lot!
Option 1: Go to rutracker, and join the “guardians”
Option 2: get a raspberry pi or something, and maybe get a new hdd, and just seed
Option 3: get a backblaze bucket
These are just from the top of my head
Are you serious? Come on.
Get another drive and that’s it.
You cannot afford it? I can spare one for you, pm me.
You want a different solution? There is none.
