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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[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I'd just delete older stuff you've already watched, unless it's something you plan on re-watching at least.

[–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder if theres an argument for an automatic down-scaler after watching it for retention, but tying it to the original torrent file at the same time.

[–] eggdaddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 hours ago

Sigh, should have stood quiet. Now 10 people are going to vibe code this and it's going to be slop and full of security holes. I have to say though, I would love something along these lines. After X number of days on server, downgrade to x265 720p. Would be great for space saving.

OP: I've gone though so many dead disks that I have to rebuild from scratch before my NAS, ONLY keep what you are going to watch/use. If you want to keep the other stuff (harder to find only imo) burn it off to throw it at some external spinning disks that you can unplug and put into long term storage.