4x18TB in RAID5. I went with 18s because it was the best value for $/TB when I bought them, which was just before prices spiked. That gives me almost exactly 50TB of usable space after formatted capacity and space lost to RAID. If I bought drives today for the same price as what I paid earlier this year, that 50TB shrinks to 35TB. I’ve only got DVD and Blu Ray rips on it; Jellyfin counts 120 movies (105 of which are Blu Ray, 15 DVD) and 1166 episodes of TV (10 series on Blu Ray, but number of episodes per show varies wildly). This is the full fat rips with MakeMKV, all special features, no video compression via Handbrake or anything; almost exactly 11TB used. So I’ve got a lot of room for expansion, and I plan on also using this NAS for other things that will probably be a rounding error compared to my Jellyfin library.
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Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Side question here: how big is your storage pool for those of you that runs a jellyfin server?
I just started a Jellyfin server, but with the current hdd prices, it fills up fast and I need to manage my library a lot more than I’d like
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 7 hours ago vodka@feddit.org 1 day ago
80TB array here. I’ve recently started using Maintainerr to delete things my friends and family request via seerr if it goes unwatched. I deleted over 15TB of things that was requested but never watched, a lot of entire shows of multiple seasons where someone only watched 2 episodes. (this was years of request history it ran over)
It was that or spending money on more 20TB drives and I just don’t have it in me to spend that money with current prices.
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I just have a 2TB server, for all my services, so I allocate 1TB for the ARR stack and the rest for my other services.
80TB would be nice haha.
I should probably add maintainerr to my services, would help me keep my files space low.
Hoimo@ani.social 9 hours ago
I would only ever buy new HDDs tbh. But also, I bought a stack of 8TB HDDs in 2023 for €180 a piece and those same models are now €300… Thanks, Obama.
Anyway, I have 4 of those, 1 is parity, so 24TB of actual space. I started with a 2TB collection from my laptop harddrive and I’m now at 7TB used. I used to be more cautious with my space and I still have my *arrs set to stingy profiles now, to make downloads faster, but I also download and keep a lot more.
I do sometimes go through and delete stuff that I won’t watch (either watched and didn’t like or never watched). But that’s more so I won’t get tempted to watch it than for the space currently.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
You can get refurbished HHDs for much cheaper
As long as they have a 2 year warranty you are goid
Damage@feddit.it 6 hours ago
Yeah but only in non-striping RAID. I had one of those fail after less than one year, RAID5 saved me from data loss.
tomkatt@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I have a 5 TB NAS (technically 4x2 TB of SSDs in RAID5, plus float space for backups of my servers), but it’s shared for music, video, books and audiobooks, and retro game ROMs, plus other necessities (personal documents and such).
I mostly enjoy older stuff, and don’t bother with 4k. I let the TV upscale it, don’t really care. Looks like I’ve got about 1.5 TB worth of video (movies, TV, and anime) at the moment, plus another 1.4 TB of music.
determinist@kbin.earth 1 day ago
10TB. 80% full. I have 2TB that I can add if I need. At this point I've maintained 80% for about 1 year.
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
10TB was pocket change not too long ago, now it’s so expensive. Unreal.
I’m lucky because my TV is 1080p so i can download lower resolution movies and series.
tomkatt@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Even with a 4k TV, 1080p is fine. Most TVs these days will upscale 1080p and 480p content, and even if not, 4k is an exact integer scale of 1080p (3840x2160 is 2x 1920x1080)
rumba@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Yup, I only keep 4k of stuff that was really shot/scanned in 4k and absolutely worth it. 90% of the 4k content out there is 1080p upscaled anyway.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, personally, I’ve noticed that I notice and appreciate very high quality streams when they are there but don’t notice lower quality ones in a bad way (where “lower quality” is still like 1080p, 720p is more noticeable).
Like 4k looks great but 1080p still looks normal.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
40TB, but that’s way more than I would realistically need if I was better about deleting old content. I have shows saved that I haven’t watched in years. With the *arr stack, there is very little reason to keep a lot of media saved, because reacquiring it again in the future is dead simple.
raef@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I have about 35TB. The movies are the hardest for me as it’s nice to have lots of options without having to download. With a show, it’s easier to make a decision to grab a season. Movies choices are more spontaneous
Damage@feddit.it 6 hours ago
Just resist the urge to download everything at max quality. Some movies don’t need to be 4k, HD is enough.
raef@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I really only do certain movies in 4k. Jellyfin says there’s about 48 hundred movies
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
40TB is wild.
My plan is to pile a bit of money and try to buy used lots of HDD and test them for health and create a JBOD storage.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Do docker files handle all the setup of these or do I have to learn stuff?
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I just setup the ARR stack and you can use a docker compose file to manage all the services. Then you need to create individual account for the services but that is straight forward.
TheBloodFarts@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
6 x 4 TB HDDs
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
How many hours when you got them?
The one I find have a high number of hours
moopet@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago a random collection of NVMEs, SSDs and HDDs in my desktop PC, totallying about 12TB-ish I think. That’s for TV and films, I keep my music in navidrome since Jellyfin has (used to have?) serious issues streaming music, in particular only ever being able to play the first track of an album, no matter what the client.
quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 day ago 8 GB
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago 1TB HDD, 80% full :') Although I’m using a laptop as a server, so my options are a little limited
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
I mean, I’ve been running lots of services on 256GB, but none of them were media servers haha.
My current ARR stack is a share of 1TB on a 2TB SSD, so I get you.
ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
2TB, but I’m also new to this.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Use mkvtoolnix and handbrake. You can quickly drop and add elements of a file with mkvtoonix and handbrake will convert most anything to H265. Its pretty fast with gpu encoding.
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I have a 2TB ssd for my whole server. I had 2x 2TB SSD in my pc that were collecting dust, so I took them out and used one for my server and one for my backup server.
So I can allocate about 1TB for Jellyfin
hiddenSin@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
3 x 16Tb Seagate disks. One is for parity. So around 29Tb of space. Got them used about 2 years ago.
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
When you got them, how many hours were they at?
The HDD I see around me have 60k hours ++ so I am a bit frisky considering what they ask for
shaztopher@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
lol that’s almost 7 years? Insane they lasted that long to begin with
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
I bought some low capacity SSD for 20$ each to install Proxmox and Proxmox Backup Server and was lucky that they both had only roughly 800 hours only, so that at least worked out for me
rumba@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
75TB