Loseless compression way for old video archive?

Laniakea · September 12, 2018

So I have close to 100GB of old videos stored on my HDD and no one is watching them or reaching them often so it would be cool if I could squeeze them as much as I can to save space. Gotta be loseless tho, thanks.

tekgeek1205 · September 12, 2018

Without transcodeing the videos, no program is going to give you any compression. If anything the compressed files will be bigger. This is why my plex box is a 13.7TB zfs raid 10.

Please someone prove me wrong!!!

jonrosalia · September 12, 2018

4 hours ago, LOLLIPOPSJSJSJ said:

So I have close to 100GB of old videos stored on my HDD and no one is watching them or reaching them often so it would be cool if I could squeeze them as much as I can to save space. Gotta be loseless tho, thanks.

why not shuffle them off into a NAZ or a external drive? 100Gb isn't that much data realy a good 1TB HDD drive and a enclosure is cheap now and just use it over usb or ethernet.