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I used to be one of those people that had no clue why anyone would need more than 256 gb of storage for anything. Until I started recording 1-2 hours of 4k vid
by cj 3y ago
I used to be one of those people that had no clue why anyone would need more than 256 gb of storage for anything.
Until I started recording 1-2 hours of 4k video per week (40-80 GB / week). That comes to about 2-4 TB per year if I keep up at this rate.
- angrais 3y agoWhy not transcode the data after use to significantly reduce filesize? If the videos are uploaded elsewhere (e.g., YT) they're most certainly transcoded on such services anyway
- mardifoufs 3y agotranscoding sucks on phones IME. Samsung added a built in, pretty barebones transcoder but even then it's very slow (obviously) and doesn't run in the background. you can do it on a computer instead, without any cloud service, but then you are back to having to deal with manually transferring your files and managing them.
- angrais 3y agoYou're right - not ideal to manually transfer. Maybe iCloud will offer transcoding as a service next haha. Many smartphones support recording H.265 encoded video directly and the resulting file size is tiny and quality is amazing. Not sure if it's the default setting (or possible) on iPhones though.
- mastax 3y agoYes, iPhones support recording to H.265 directly and have defaulted to it for a while.
- aristus 3y agoCongrats! How old is your kid? ;)
- cj 3y agoNope! Got a drone (DJI mini 4) and record on most flights.
- jenny91 3y ago80GB/week is ~4TB/year.
- cj 3y agoOops, fixed. Thanks