I’m finally getting around to setting up my new(er) Plex server. Have Dell PE 710 with 8 bays. For storage I have a NAS expandable to 36TB. How much hard drive space would I need for the Plex server? Thanks.
How much media do you want to store there?
I’m not looking to store any media there as I stated I’ll use my NAS. So the only thing on the server will be OS, Plex, misc programs. As I understand it the meta data is keep on the plex server…
Oh i c. Well thats a clear “that depends”
The Plexserver itself is negligible. The Metadata grows with your library. If you enable videopreview thumbnails it grows even more.
2 real world examples:
A 1TB Medialibrary without preview thumbnails produced a 1.1G Metadata directory.
A 30TB Medialibrary with preview thumbnails produced a 191G Metadata directory.
So to be on the safe side, aim for at least 500G - 1TB of storage in your server, depending on how big your misc programs are.
Hope that helps.
The size of the metadata doesn’t depend so much on the size of the media files
but on the number of media items.
30TB of BluRay remuxes produce less metadata than 30TB of recompressed movies in HEVC.
It gets much worse if you add a lot of photos, btw.
Is that not only true if you use the advanced photo options? I do not use them so I have no real way of knowing but my photo library, that uses only embedded data, does not seem to impact my metadata size much, if at all.
Of course since my photos are mostly old and simple the amount of metadata may be different for others. All I care about is the date taken and, in some cases the subject or location.
They have nothing to do with it, since they only consist of text data.
It is the (sometimes multiple) scaled versions of each photo, which get cached in the data folder.
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