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TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

My low cost solution has been adding external mechanical disks. Those can go up to 4 TB for cheap, so I put two and sync them with rsync weekly in case one suddenly fails.

As others have wisely said, keep the fast SSD for your OS, media rarely changes and is usually accessed sequentially, it can live on slower disks.

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Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
It won’t make streaming slower unless you have multiple clients streaming, as in several.

I find the network to be the bottleneck - my gigabit network connection saturates with 3 streams, and I’m using a conventional hard drive for my media (OS is on an M2 drive). This doesn’t seem to affect the video quality though.

Frankly SSD is overrated for common stuff, there are other bottlenecks that usually hit us first, such as network or processing.

As you build out, make sure you consider backup in your costs, don’t spend your money just on storage.

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Eirikr70@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I second that advice. When choosing the HDD, make sure it is NAS-grade.

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lavendertea@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Yes, the consensus here seems to be that for media it is fine to choose a HDD. Won’t it make streaming from Jellyfin slower?

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- atzanteol@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  No. People here grossly underestimate the performance of hdds. Streaming is an easy task for hdds.
  
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- stormeuh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Not unless you choose really slow hard drives, or stream very high bitrate media. Most hard drives can easily do 100MB/s sequentially (i.e. reading a large file, such as long video files). Meanwhile high-bitrate 4K video is only about 50Mbit/s, so about 6MB/s.
  
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- freebee@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  HDD is cheap and enough, but SSD is silent.
  
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- CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  No. Keep all the software running on SSDs while using HDDs for storing the video files themselves. You’ll never max their transfer speed out especially considering you’re not sharing with friends and family.
  
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- zlatko@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  My small low power self built NAS has HDDs for Jellyfin and no problems at all. Just a simple straight forward RAID1 created from countless online tutorials.
  
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  - lavendertea@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Thanks for sharing that writeup, this is exactly the kind of info I was looking for.
    
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