A very fine build! 👌 To be quite honest, maybe a little over-spec:ed for this fairly light use-case/purpose (price, power usage). But that does mean that you’ll have plenty of room for growth; virtualization etc
CederGrass759
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If you’re talking about more long-term storage (that is, you want to be sure, in 5-10-20 years time, that you will easily be able to open and view these files), then I would strongly recommend you chose one of these formats that are widely use for archiving purposes:
You're going to simplify your life and your setup if you can avoid transcoding.
In a home environment, I see no need for transcoding anything (direct play of even 90 GB UHD HDR films is no problem to for example iPad, or iPhones or most modern TVs.
Make sure that subtitles are in .SRT format, and you'll never need transcoding for that either.
The ONLY time I see a potential need for transcoding would be if all you media is stored in maximum-quality 80GB rips, and you need to watch a movie on your phone while on the subway. If you use Plex, the easiest solution is to always download or rip you movies in two formats. One 80 GB maximum quality UHD 10 bit file, and one 720p 1 GB x265 file, that will be automatically selected if bandwidth is low. Violá, you'll never need transcoding! :-)
Yes, this will work fine. It may feel sluggish when you use it, but for storing and serving files, backups etc, it will be plenty.
Scan the pages separately?
I very strongly recommend an auto-feed scanner! I have tried flatbeds, negative scanners and commercial services. Then I found a used Epson FastFoto FF-680W auto-feed scanner, and honestly, I would never go back! The quality is excellent and they are unbelievably fast! You will save SO much time!
If you’re scanning family-type photos the source quality is never perfect anyway. Much MUCH better to free up time for organizing, labeling, tagging etc all the photos — and to have time to actually watch them with family and friends.
Not once has a photo been damaged for me. But even if that would happen to 1% of the thousands of photos: so what? Better that you get them digitized in a reasonable amount of time, than that you treat them like unique collector’s items. In my experience, if you dont scan the, now, the likeleyhood of them beimg just lost or thrown away in the future is very high.
Technically impressive! That’s a HUGE collection!
I am curious, though, as to your reason for doing this?.. Storing and maintaining 150 TB of small video files is going to be costly and time consuming…. While I do understand that it may be a good idea to archive some specific content that you may fear will otherwise be lost over time, in this case the volume is huge that you can never even watch all of it — let alone know if the content is something worth keeping?
No offense, everyone is free to spend their own time and money on whatever. But I do get curious what the plan is behind all this?
If you have a decent phone, I’d simply use its camera and a PDF scanning software. On my iPhone, I use the free Adobe Scan to create OCR:d (searchable) scans of newpapers. The quality is surprisingly good.
Only problem is with winkles/creases — if you’re serious about this, I guess you could try to put a glass or plexiglass ”window” on top of the newspaper to keep it flat?