Edit0: I'm disappointed that some people that take time to comment don't seem to take time to read the whole post. Then, perhaps, they would realize that this post is not an SSD vs. HDD discussion, that using HDDs are out of question with my current living situation and that I just wanted to vent among peers.
Edit1: While I'm not judging - I myself recently moved to my current apartment for the very sake of being able to seed nonstop - I'm disappointed at how some of the commenters don't take seeding for granted in a pirating community.

When I began building my server rig - which includes my torrenting setup - last year, I was able to find the 4TB 2.5 inch SATA SSD Samsung 870 EVO for about €300. I bought four of them, but now, I'm running out of space, so I checked a couple of retailers. Wowee. What is going on with these prices. 😂 Even Micron's Crucial brand, which at some point was the more affordable option, is way past it's curfew. 🤬

I just wanted to vent.

Since I'm one of those people who'd rather sleep in an anechoic chamber or at the very least use white noise or the likes in order to sleep, running HDDs doing random reads and writes next to my bed in my single room apartment is not a option.

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[–] ResistingArrest@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yes but how regularly are you watching any given terabyte of video? You should look into getting some kind of data on what media is accessed and if it hasn’t been accessed in something like 30 days, get rid of it.

[–] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

I know that, but I also want to keep seeding. It's a balance, I guess. But perhaps I could remove that which I haven't watched for 90 days and whose share ratio has reached 1.0 or that hasn't changed for 90 days. That way, I can enjoy having the files around and keep seeding that which has some popularity.

[–] freebee@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

More important than ratio is how many seeds are left. Keep the ones that are low on seeds, ditch the ones where there are hundreds of others seeding.

[–] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

You could get some big hdds and move the things there you aren’t seeding anymore, so they won’t be active unless you’re watching something from them.

[–] ResistingArrest@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

If you’re really interested in having all of the media locally, this is probably the move for you. I’m a big proponent for paying for a debrid service & using stremio + torrentio and only downloading locally what I KNOW I’m gonna watch again.

[–] mrnobody@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You must be young and don't understand seeding lol. Probably on Torrentio or Streamio or whatever.

[–] ResistingArrest@lemmy.zip 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty rude and condescending to assume I can’t understand the concepts behind seeding etiquette.

[–] mrnobody@reddthat.com 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Well, I've got stuff seeding far more than 30 days, usually the obscure stuff. But also, I seed until my ratio hits 10:1 just cuz I have the bandwidth/capacity, and I know how hard it is sometimes to get a decent DL.

Some people don't GAF, I don't mean to assume you don't, I just want those who don't to understand, to get its importance!

[–] ResistingArrest@lemmy.zip 1 points 21 hours ago

baller

[–] exu@feditown.com 3 points 1 day ago

Curating what content you download is completely unrelated to how long you seed it.