Your best bet for a large storage server is going to be the Rosewill 4U cases or biting the noise/power bullet and getting a high disk density rack server like a Dell 740XD. Either route will cost about the same hardware wise. Are you moving a RAID/HBA card over or doing JBOD? if RAID/HBA keep in mind how you plan to cool the card

Check if you have a misconfigured firewall, but that torrent looks like it may just be dead

There are many interesting, useless, and sometimes borderline illegal things to find on the site, its crazy what the government has to just auction off there

If you’re in the US, there is a website called “GovDeal”. I know multiple people who have purchased archival book scanners off of here

GovDeals is your friend

There’s a version of the case (not sure if it’s THIS design) that has an extra printable section to fit the pebble mouse

There is a *darr program (tdarr maybe) that you can use to on-the-fly convert media, but unless you know what you’re doing you’ll just waste power/time over looking for torrents that are already HEVC. Also, depending on the age of the content, HEVC really wont save that much space.

Lidarr and Readarr DO work, but it relies on community support for it to be incredibly accurate (IIRC Lidarr uses Musicbrainz for its backend, and unless someone had added an album there you wont ever pull metadata for it) and takes a lot more time to correctly set up and configure in my experience.

There are a few guides as far as “the best” settings for media, trash guides comes to mind but his guides are aimed at having everything in “the best format” vs saving space

Maybe no one is talking about it because the greedy devs are now charging for a project?

It’s wild, i made sure to uninstall Junkstore1.0 from my deck

Just make sure to verify how much space these hold before actually using them

As someone else said, this almost always comes down to the device they’re using. Especially if it’s a Playstation console or a Smart TV (in my experience) as they don’t support x265 codec or have .ass support, or both