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  • It depends. If you want to split the library by movies/shows/seasons/whatever, you can probably do that with a small shell script. If it’s by folder, that’s very easy. If for some reason you have an XML database and a flat file backend… well, you’d have to put the files into a folder tree for the torrents anyway. It would be much easier to actually move (or better yet, symlink or hard link) the files into that folder tree, unless there’s some kind of industrial-grade torrent software I’ve never heard of that can integrate with that, instead of just the filesystem. I’m sure they exist, given that bittorrent is used for stuff like video game updates, but that seems like a lot of work for not much gain.




  • catloaf@lemm.eetoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldDisposing of failed HDDs
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    3 days ago

    Some other comments mention shattering platters, but that’s only true for what are typically laptop drives. Most full-size drives are full metal and bend and break into a few large pieces, not really shatter like glass.

    Anything that will physically disable them will work. They make bending jigs, but you could also just use a sledgehammer, or prop them up at an angle and drive over them. Drill a few holes, at least one through the head assembly. Or take them to the range and put some bullet holes in them. They definitely won’t spin up after that.