On Monday 06 Aug 2012 12:25:19 Dale wrote: > What I have on there is videos. When I tried to compress some and test, > it was basically the same size. I guess videos don't compress to much?
Not without transcoding the streams into more space efficient formats - but you could well suffer from loss of quality (lossy formats and digital generation losses). So YMMV. > While I am at it. You should have a good answer for this one. What is > a good file system for this sort of thing? I been using ext4 but it > sure does use a lot of space for its overhead. As far as files go, most > will likely be videos. I do have other files but when compared to the > number of videos, they are close to nothing. The files system for the > current 1Tb, spread across two drives with LVM, uses about 75Gbs for the > file system thingy. That's a pretty good bit to me. I may lose more > than 200Gbs on this 3Tb drive. O_O That sounds like a lot! I'm waiting to see what others comment and benchmarks. -- Regards, Mick
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