Video file server without compression?

[Mark Kaine]

So apparently im a gameplay video horder... (oops) just bought a 1tb samsung 980 and its already half full (and so are several other drives... around 6-8... TB?) oof...

 

Is there a viable option to just store the videos online... and would that be cheaper than just keep buying hard drives? 

 

i have a mega account (free) and love it (they have a player and *no compression whatsoever*) but the plans are expensive...  10€/month for 2TB? (which isnt even a lot of storage, considering) 

 

just  to be clear, youtube is no option... too tedious and quality sucks!

 

 

 

[m9x3mos]

15 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

So apparently im a gameplay video horder... (oops) just bought a 1tb samsung 980 and its already half full (and so are several other drives... around 6-8... TB?) oof...

 

Is there a viable option to just store the videos online... and would that be cheaper than just keep buying hard drives? 

 

i have a mega account (free) and love it (they have a player and *no compression whatsoever*) but the plans are expensive...  10€/month for 2TB? (which isnt even a lot of storage, considering) 

 

just  to be clear, youtube is no option... too tedious and quality sucks!

 

 

 

Are you looking for a video hosting service or some place just to store the data? 

[Mark Kaine]

19 minutes ago, m9x3mos said:

Are you looking for a video hosting service or some place just to store the data? 

im not sure, depends what it costs i guess, i would love to just be able to stream the videos,  but if just storing without streaming is much cheaper that would also be an option. 

 

As said on mega I just click on my video or link and it plays in my browser (without any apparent compression) but really if just storing is cheaper that would be ok also (i dunno ~2 TB for a start perhaps? )

[manikyath]

storing data is expensive, you arent going to find affordable cloud storage that also is fast enough for video playback, and reliable enough to actually trust your data to stay there.

 

in the scope of cloud storage, 10 bucks for 2TB is an absolute bargain.

 

do yourself a favor and build yourself a NAS, stick those drives in a redundant array of sorts, and expand it as necessary.

 

or.. actually.. have you considered blurays? on those big spindles it's less than $1 per disk. i assume you're not constantly watching all of it? just either burn it to blurays as data, or make some nice high bitrate bluray burns of said gameplay?

[Mark Kaine]

15 minutes ago, manikyath said:

or.. actually.. have you considered blurays?

actually... i did when making this topic... i didn't think they're that cheap now, last time I checked they were like 5 bucks or so at least...

 

its like 50gb or so per disc? that would be pretty good for a lot of videos actually... and i could watch whenever I want ...

 

Do you think its possible to put a br drive into a laptop?  or would be external better? 

 

18 minutes ago, manikyath said:

in the scope of cloud storage, 10 bucks for 2TB is an absolute bargain.

ah, ok... well that would be an option too, but it just somehow seems silly to pay 10 bucks each month and realistically 2TB is very limited (aka it probably wont last for long lol)

 

So i guess a br drive would be a good alternative... thanks for the suggestion.  

[manikyath]

9 hours ago, Mark Kaine said:

actually... i did when making this topic... i didn't think they're that cheap now, last time I checked they were like 5 bucks or so at least...

 

its like 50gb or so per disc? that would be pretty good for a lot of videos actually... and i could watch whenever I want ...

 

Do you think its possible to put a br drive into a laptop?  or would be external better? 

 

ah, ok... well that would be an option too, but it just somehow seems silly to pay 10 bucks each month and realistically 2TB is very limited (aka it probably wont last for long lol)

 

So i guess a br drive would be a good alternative... thanks for the suggestion.  

the cheap ones are 25GB (single layer / dual layer thing..)

 

i'd suggest going for an external drive, it's gonna be difficult enough as is to find a bluray burner, let alone one that fits your specific laptop, even if your laptop still has an optical drive slot.

 

also, i should mention.. is having a NAS an option at all? depending on the drives you already have you may already be most of the way there budget-wise.

[Mark Kaine]

2 hours ago, manikyath said:

the cheap ones are 25GB (single layer / dual layer thing..)

 

i'd suggest going for an external drive, it's gonna be difficult enough as is to find a bluray burner, let alone one that fits your specific laptop, even if your laptop still has an optical drive slot.

ah i see , I'll look into that if i can find one for my laptop it would be ideal otherwise external. also i guess sourcing the discs won't be easy, but if i can it would really a good option i think.

 

2 hours ago, manikyath said:

also, i should mention.. is having a NAS an option at all? depending on the drives you already have you may already be most of the way there budget-wise.

sure would be an option but seems impractical due to physical space, cables , etc? also my drives are all almost full lol... it just seems a lot of work instead of just burning discs,  which also would free up my hard drives? 

 

i also have likely a lot of duplicate files, i recently deleted some of them , ironically with CCleaner which was the only program to even find some, free'd like 100GB across my drives... but I'm sure there's more... which is more or less another problem though finding all duplicates... seems especially tricky with videos when they're edited, renamed, etc -- even though CCleaner actually did find some!  

 

But really i think bluray would be ideal, considering its videos (eh, uh, are blurays rewritable btw?  that would be even better,  but if not thats also ok... a lot of my videos are actually edited already so they take a little less space...) 

 

ie. my idea was actually to just cut the yet unedited videos then burn them, because encoding them all would seriously take too long and cutting is really quick (lossless with shutter encoder) 

 

[manikyath]

18 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

eh, uh, are blurays rewritable btw? 

i wouldnt consider them as such. see it as 'archival', more than 'active storage'.

 

18 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

physical space, cables , etc?

it doesnt need to be big, and you only need a network cable and a power cable.. and it can be wherever in the house it fits best.

[Mark Kaine]

25 minutes ago, manikyath said:

wouldnt consider them as such. see it as 'archival', more than 'active storage'.

yeah sure, but it can be both! i have several rwdvds... 20 yo or so and still work... just because its rewritable doesn't mean you have too. : p

 

but if anything rewritable brs would probably be expensive , and its really not a requirement...

 

just looking it up, cheapest (lg) im finding so far is 25 bucks, most cost around 70.... but i also saw some internals so i need to dig a bit more that external for 25 is mighty tempting though! 

 

25 minutes ago, manikyath said:

it doesnt need to be big, and you only need a network cable and a power cable.. and it can be wherever in the house it fits best

yeah, but its unfortunately not practical for me, the room is small , and while the house is big, its old and it would be a pain having very long cables laying around,  plus as said my drives are full (and a mess) it would be no fun sifting through tons of dublicates and whatnot each time i want to watch something (which i actually do sometimes btw... but i would watch more if the videos were be better organized tbh...)

 

ps: that 25 bucks drive can also do "m-discs" ... is that any good?

 

(wow format chaos lol, the 90s are calling.... : D)