It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/PussyMangler421 on 2025-07-02 19:00:51.

My porn collection was just absurdly large, 220TB.

I decided to finally setup Tdarr and throw in a bunch of cheap intel arc GPU's to encode to AV1. I was nervous because i'd heard it's a pain to setup but for my scenario it was ridiculously easy, no complex flows, just encode and replace. It is very good at handling failed encodes.

It took a good year of 24/7 encoding but I went from 220TB to only 88TB. I was literally able to build a backup array with the space I saved and then have drives left over. I'll never notice the quality difference, I wasn't even able to in the few test files I compared at the beginning.