75 TV-Shows and 1300 Movies. All 720p and 1080p, taking up 4-5TB. At the moment I run a Synology DS1513+ 20TB raid with a QNAP TS 419+ 12TB mountet inside the Synology. With the Plex Media Server running on my Synology and a stable high speed up connection, this is seriously my own personal Netflix. Anywhere, anytime.
Thank you Plex<3
I have 6 3TB Drives, paired using Windows Raid, creating 9TB of redundant storage. I've chosen a Windows Raid, as with traditional hardware Raids, you're screwed if your Motherboard or Controller fails. At that point, your data is very hard, if not impossible to get back.
3.68 TB of Shows - 191 Shows
2.00 TB of Movies - 1470
Not only is everything organized with Plex, but shows go through meta before entering the library.
I have about 800+ movies and 40 Tv shows but I rarely watch any of it, I am so busy. But my children and their friends at college love it so I guess that is why I continue to do this.
slightly over 1100 movies and about 500+ episodes of TV series.
Update: have expanded my TV collection recently, 32 Shows with about 1200 episodes now
Update:
I just noticed I've got about 1800+ movies in 720p/1080p format. For TV shows archive, in about 1 week will have over 100 TV different shows (full season).
I have 4 x 4 TB drives in an external housing.
this thing had horrible reviews and was being sold off very cheaply. The reviews all centered around its RAID failings, I picked one up for $35 in a fire sale and use it only on USB with no RAID. Works faultlessly. They are setup as individually accessible drives with 2 being exact mirrors of the other 2. I started out with 4 x 250 GB and have slowly progressed through 500 GB, 1 TB and now 4 TB drives. Originally I had 8 drives mounted in AMS 4 in 3 Back planes in a Thermaltake Armor VA8000 case, but rationalizing the 8 x 1 TB drives down to 4 drives and an increasing urge to cut down on my media servers power consumption made me seek out an external solution. As to content, most (about 8000 episodes of UK, US and Scandinavian material) of it is TV shows, old and new, some at very low resolution. I have about 800 movies some at ridiculous resolutions (Prometheus is 25 GB) but mostly at 2-3 GB per movie.
snoopy:/mnt/media $ du -sh films/ tv_series/ 573G films/ 583G tv_series/snoopy:/mnt/media $ find films/ -type f -size +400M | wc -l
478snoopy:/mnt/media $ find tv_series/ -maxdepth 1 -type d | wc -l
106snoopy:/mnt/media $ find tv_series/ -type f -size +10M | wc -l
2098
Both are running in Vmware ESX.
I have 2 Synology 1813+ NAS each filled with 8 4TB Red harddrives
They are replicating each other from two different places so I have one setup at home locally and one external (the external one is shared with some friends)
All is setup in Raid6 so 48TB of space where 23TB out of 24TB is used
Around 10k tvepisode (only HD)
Around 900 Movies (only 1080p)
PMS is on the external destination run on a 24 core server with 384 GB ram and local SSD storage for the os install (yeah a bit overkill...)
PMS on the home setup is a modest server (6 core 32 GB Ram) running Hyper-V where PMS is being run in one of the VMs.
I have 2 Synology 1813+ NAS each filled with 8 4TB Red harddrives
They are replicating each other from two different places so I have one setup at home locally and one external (the external one is shared with some friends)
All is setup in Raid6 so 48TB of space where 23TB out of 24TB is used
Around 10k tvepisode (only HD)
Around 900 Movies (only 1080p)
PMS is on the external destination run on a 24 core server with 384 GB ram and local SSD storage for the os install (yeah a bit overkill...)
PMS on the home setup is a modest server (6 core 32 GB Ram) running Hyper-V where PMS is being run in one of the VMs.
ive got about 3000 HD movies and about 170 complete tv series HD also, taking up 6TB of space. I think you're doing something really wrong if your content is wasting that much space. Consider converting everything to x265 maybe.
Considering a standard 1080p Movie is around 8-10 GB we are talking 8-9TB on the Movies and a normal tv episode is around 500-1200 MB that sums up to Another 10k*900MB = 9TB so around 17TB there. The extra 6TB is a few bluray rips at 40-50 GB each and some home videos from DV-tape.
Considering a standard 1080p Movie is around 8-10 GB we are talking 8-9TB on the Movies and a normal tv episode is around 500-1200 MB that sums up to Another 10k*900MB = 9TB so around 17TB there. The extra 6TB is a few bluray rips at 40-50 GB each and some home videos from DV-tape.
Well I don't wanna go in to detail but there is a reason the people who "produce" this stuff has this exact same setup, no exceptions ;-) So to reencode Everything from it's original form to save a few TB which is so damn cheap today doesnt make any sense to me. My whole setup for "aquiring" my media is all automatic and to interfere with this and put time and effort in to this isnt Worth it. I rather spend that time elsewhere.
I have a Drobo B800fs, with 2x4TB, 2x3TB, and 4x2TB disks, in a BeyondRaid.
I have about 600 Movies, and 5500 episodes of TV shows
625 movies
61 complete TV series (7,000+ episodes)
8 Workout Collections (Insanity, P90X, etc)
I do have extras for some movies and tv shows.
This is on my 12tb server which also backs up the computers on my network also hosts 100,000+ songs, plus 50,000+ photos and home movies.
1806 Movies 1080p/720p
103 3D Movies 1090p HSBS
125 TV series (complete series)
150 IT Trainning Videos 720p
Total library size is sitting around ~9 TB. The media acquisition process is fully automated which allows for new content being added daily.
1806 Movies 1080p/720p
103 3D Movies 1090p HSBS
125 TV series (complete series)
150 IT Trainning Videos 720p
Total library size is sitting around ~9 TB. The media acquisition process is fully automated which allows for new content being added daily.
I know this isn't the forum to ask this but I would love to know how one automates the entire process on various platforms. I should probably start a new forum on this subject as I think it would be a valuable subject for all of us. Right now I am doing almost everything manually. I am on a Mac and use "TVSHOWS" to download episodes which automatically opens up Vuze but i still have to activate my VPN manually to finish the process. Then everything else is manual and time consumming. Someone want to start a HOW-TO thread?
I know this isn't the forum to ask this but I would love to know how one automates the entire process on various platforms. I should probably start a new forum on this subject as I think it would be a valuable subject for all of us. Right now I am doing almost everything manually. I am on a Mac and use "TVSHOWS" to download episodes which automatically opens up Vuze but i still have to activate my VPN manually to finish the process. Then everything else is manual and time consumming. Someone want to start a HOW-TO thread?
At a high level I use deluge on a remote server and a combination of custom bash and node.js scripts for extracting sorting cleaning up and moving to completed folder . On the local side i download files from completed folder via sftp to file server and plex takes care of the rest. After a few revisions i finally got this working with about 95% of the time. If i get some time i will write detailed HOW TO.
1,500+ Movies at 3TB
250+ Full Series Tv Shows at 5TB
1,500 TED talks
+ or - 500 History Channel/Discovery Channel Documentaries
90,000+ Songs in iTunes that Plex brilliantly handles
I feel that my library isn't that big anymore. haha. I'm very jealous of a lot of you guys.
Anyone want to share their library with me and I'll share mine with you? Mine is up 24/7. I never turn it off.
700 Music Videos
725 Learning Videos
840 NFL Games
4,000+ Movies (mostly all Blu Ray)
7,200+ TV Show Episodes
10,000+ Music Albums
Still growing at a pretty quick pace.
