The General Chit Chat Thread 2

[Dhruv]

30GB+ For C3 =_=
In comparison Final8 has done it with ~14GB.
Now what the heck should i do?

And yes it's generally Tenshi... Cyras did 51 episodes of soul eater in 720p and it's something like 37GB ONLY.

[Havoc10K]

filesize also depends on how sparkly the episodes are, you know, those moments of a lot of sparkles make a big file most of the time

30GB+ For C3 =_=
In comparison Final8 has done it with ~14GB.
Now what the heck should i do?

And yes it's generally Tenshi... Cyras did 51 episodes of soul eater in 720p and it's something like 37GB ONLY.

do a comparison of a few episodes, compare bitrates, some groups use 2k bitrate for BD quality 720p which is actually a crime against quality.

[Dhruv]

Well the thing is i have a slow net connection so even downloading one episode of Tenshi's 1080p takes ages.
I think i'll ask xgraphy.
I found some screenshots for 1080p version from Final8. Let's see how the compare to Coalgirls.
http://mei.animebyt.es/images/6ce358fbd850b8df73c96c4dbd6bd495.png


I'll Take 720p for Another and Rinne.

[megido-rev.M]

How slow are we talking?

[Nodame-chan]

^ It's cuz I'm not talking today

[flyawave]

Kinda rude of me to post and vanish =/

My sister and I were sharing reading glasses. We both have .25 power concave lenses for both eyes, except she's more astigmatic than I, so it's close but not quite perfect

[megido-rev.M]

^ It's cuz I'm not talking today

lol I meant Dhruv's slow connection speed.

[Dhruv]

Something like 512 kbps. Sometimes a bit more. 
Rest of the plans have great speeds but they come with a ridiculously low bandwidth cap. 

[megido-rev.M]

I remember once seeing Bhell offering something like 25Mbps down and caps at 15G. I mean, WTF is that?

[buchno]

I remember once seeing Bhell offering something like 25Mbps down and caps at 15G. I mean, WTF is that?

15GB? I hope they mean per hour...

[Dhruv]

I remember once seeing Bhell offering something like 25Mbps down and caps at 15G. I mean, WTF is that?

We have a plan here which gives 30GB Bandwidth cap with a speed of ~15mbps.
I download >30GB in 7-8 days with my connection.

@buchno: Probably not.

[Dex_Belle]

I got a terabyte hard drive thinking it would last me a couple years. I haven't had it for a year and I already filled it. I have a little more than 50 GB left

[buchno]

I got a terabyte hard drive thinking it would last me a couple years. I haven't had it for a year and I already filled it. I have a little more than 50 GB left

I'm in the same position as you, but I want to change the file system from ntfs to ext4. How would you do that?

[megido-rev.M]

^ An EXT4 formatter?

I remember once seeing Bhell offering something like 25Mbps down and caps at 15G. I mean, WTF is that?

15GB? I hope they mean per hour...

NO. That's a monthly cap and the cap is 15G!


Right now I have a 300G cap (with unlimited during off-peak ), which is pretty good seeing as can get 1G/hr, but my goodness is it a pain even trying to saturate these goddamn copper wires. I can change to cable, but I am holding off for certain reasons.

I got a terabyte hard drive thinking it would last me a couple years. I haven't had it for a year and I already filled it. I have a little more than 50 GB left

Mine would fill up quickly as well if I downloaded everything I saw . I've maybe used 200G/1T in about a month already.

[buchno]

^ An EXT4 formatter?

I meant without losing all my precious data :P

The only way I can think of is to make a new partition in ext4, move some of the files there, shrink my ntfs partition and extend the new one, move more files, shrink & extend, etc, until I'm done, but it would take a very long time and I'm not that patient...

[megido-rev.M]

Explain again why you want to change the FS?

[buchno]

Explain again why you want to change the FS?

Because I want to use the character ":" in a file name.

Edit: Jokes aside, performance.

[megido-rev.M]

How much improvement are we talking here?

[Dhruv]

I got a terabyte hard drive thinking it would last me a couple years. I haven't had it for a year and I already filled it. I have a little more than 50 GB left

I'd recommend getting a Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB and putting it in an external enclosure. Use it for torrenting.
And when you fill it up just buy storage drives like Elements or My book Essentials.

[buchno]

How much improvement are we talking here?

That is a very big question.
Here are two benchmarks:
http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?1765-PERFORMANCE-OF-FILESYSTEMS-COMPARED-%28includes-Reiser4-and-Ext4%29.
http://fsi-viewer.blogspot.se/2011/10/filesystem-benchmarks-part-i.html

...oh, and because of this:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/RTorrent#Pre-allocation