~39 TB (15 x 3TB - RAID6 Dell MD3000i)
3,089 Movies @ 720p or higher
305 TV Shows, 16,613 episodes @ 720p
843 Musical Artists, 2,426 Albums, 32,067 Songs @ 320kbps
35,538 Books, mostly in EPUB format, some in PDF (sad face)
About 60% utilized at the moment. Dreading the day I have to replace those 3TB drives with 4TB+ units...
My library is 8TB so far :ph34r:
PartyMummy,
What you *think* you will be doing will probably change. And it'll be a change that requires increased capability and/or storage. In about 3 years my little "pet project" has become what some might call a "monster". 30TB supporting 12500 TV shows and 1500 movies (and there are many here with more) - from something for my household to a service shared w/my children in remote households. Bottom line: plan for growth and increased demand. And make sure you're backed up...no one wants to see a grown-up cry like a baby WHEN a drive failure occurs :). Meanwhile, I'm waiting for the UPS dude to bring me 2 5TB drives before I'm out of space.... Yep, it's a hobby....
767 Movies,
96 TV Shows, (365 Seasons, 4650 Episodes),
88 Music Artists (193 Albums, 2350 Tracks),
60 Misc, Cooking & Music Videos
USB 3.0 Connected External Enclosures
No redundancy... livin' on the edge at the moment
(but Original Master Disc's for most of it). :unsure:
No redundancy... livin' on the edge at the moment
Same here regarding redundancy. 9 x4TB drives with about 5TB of that free.
1932 Movies (Mainly 5-20GB MKV.)
148 TV Shows.
2900 Albums (all Flac)
Will wait for the verdict to come out on the Seagate 8TB archive drives and may buy one of those every couple of months..Then I may achieve some redundancy at last.
PS. PlexHilirated... What are those enclosures?
3x4tb harddrives in my pc/nas setup with about 1tb spare
All these backed up with another 3x4tb sitting in cupboard
I just update them monthly overnight
Pretty sure I can fit another x5 harddrives in my case
So looking at my next options… Was looking at the WD 6tb Reds? But not sure
PS. PlexHilirated... What are those enclosures?
Vantec HX4 Product info:
http://www.vantecusa.com/en/product/view_detail/488
Great source (although wait until they go on sale for under $100):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817392051
They also have a Raid Version, the HX4R:
http://www.vantecusa.com/en/product/view_detail/526
I've never had any problems with them.
And they look cool here:
Vantec HX4 Product info:
http://www.vantecusa.com/en/product/view_detail/488
Great source (although wait until they go on sale for under $100):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817392051
They also have a Raid Version, the HX4R:
http://www.vantecusa.com/en/product/view_detail/526
I've never had any problems with them.
And they look cool here:
Wow $127 on NewEgg and £170 on Amazon.co.uk. :o
They may have to wait til all the Hard drives are upgraded to 8TB and I STILL run out of sata ports. Thanks for the info. :)
Figured I would do an update on my stuff. Compressed MP4/H264/AAC 75% in 1080p and rest in 720p. Do to so many streams requiring transcoding I have the TV on a server and Movies on a separate server. I have about 14TB available total for just storage (all my OS drives run off SSD) and am using only 8.8TB of storage right now. Backing my content up onto cloud storage, so I don't need to worry about losing data or having a local backup handy. If I need to restore everything if that was to happen I have 1gbit line at home so it would take only a couple days.
Hi guys!
Impressive libraries there! over 5000 movies! now we're talking!
I'm also reaching the 5000 movies (Lot of them in 1080p DTS) on a 48Tb Synology 2211RP (10x6Gb in RAID5) and I was about to start the Plex adventure. But I didn't want to start this big organization to realize that it wasn't realistic.
I'm glad to see that I'm not the only "Mad Movies Collector"!
I'll be glad to know your adivce:
- So over 5000 movies is realstic to manage with Plex?
- Is a Synology server capable of hosting Plex server and transcode "on the fly" or is it better to delegate this to a standalone server with bigger CPU?
- What about Data Base backup?
Thanks a million for your precious advices!
Pieyrot
If I need to restore everything if that was to happen I have 1gbit line at home so it would take only a couple days.
Have you tested that you actually get 1gbit when restoring? My cloud backup provider has <20mbit, making large-scale restores over internet impractical.
For my own library, I'm currently building it up. Only have about 160 movies and 600 tv episodes, all HD (1080p for movies and 720p for tv), and 220 albums (FLAC).
Storage is provided by my old desktop PC running Nas4Free with 6 3TB WD RED drives in a single RaidZ2 array, resulting in 12TB available storage. Plex runs on my current desktop, found the FreeBSD version to be a bit fragile (Nas4Free is FreeBSD based).
Currently no proper backups, though considering getting a couple of the new 8tbyte archive drives.
Have you tested that you actually get 1gbit when restoring? My cloud backup provider has <20mbit, making large-scale restores over internet impractical.
I don't get a full 1gbit from a single stream. The syncing application I use does multiple streams/gets from the cloud provider so I get easily about 500 - 750 mbit ...
I don't get a full 1gbit from a single stream. The syncing application I use does multiple streams/gets from the cloud provider so I get easily about 500 - 750 mbit ...
Ah nice. My backup client can store each backup set in multiple destinations, so the cloud option is really just if my house burns down or similar, hence why I'm not too bothered about the low speed. But if you have multi-TB it's something to keep in mind.
I just refreshed my media server setup with 16 new 4TB drives and now have about 50TB space (finally)! I’ve spent the better part of 201X now to rip most of my tapes, DVD’s, BluRays, HDDVD, CD’s and Vinyls (I’ve doublestacked most of my casettes, so they are thrown out).
now I just need to remux most of the Blurays and dvds and I’m done. I think I have about 30TB now.
I will NEVER do this again, and when I’m done I will destroy the source media and forever do WEB-DL from itunes/amazon or other, cheaper sources.
Down from 18sqm of storage space to just around 1/3rd of a m3 is fine with me 
Topicless: If anyone know a good place to buy cheap WEB-DL movies and series, please holler!
24 TB
2500 Hi-Def Movies
100 4K TV/Movies
100 3D TV/Movies
18000 TV Show Episodes
65000 Music Tracks
4150 Movies Mostly in 1080p
47 Shows with 1970 Episodes
10352 Albums or 126,806 Tracks
How big your library is depends on a lot of choices. Currently I use a 8 TB, and 4 TB, and 3 TB disk for my media library, and have a second copy with the same size drives for backup. Among the 3 drives I have about 3 TB’s free, so that is 12 TB of actual media. I found my collection grows exponentially. I purchase about the same number of videos each each, but the storage size per file increases. When I first started I had two 500 GB drives, and I was ripping movies VCD resolution and then encoding them to divx 3. By the time I outgrew those drives I was ripping DVD resolution DivX 4, 1250 Kbps. My limit was based on that was how fast my wifi could stream movies without getting jittery. I currently encode everything H264 at source resolution and a QF 20, 21, or 22 depending on the source. I was also storing raw Audio, and found that was sometimes taking more storage than video. So I now just store HE-AAC audio in most cases.
There are still more choices to make. 3-D or not 3-D? I do actually have a 3-D media player, but being as I’m blind in one eye, it does me no good. But my family sometimes likes 3-D movies. So a few movies like the Hobbit movies I encoded 3-D. Eventually Ultra-D will be available, and then I’ll be able to enjoy 3-D as well.
Currently the limit for my movie encoding, is I’m using an old laptop with only a 100 Mbps network card to stream the movies. That means if I stream something higher than that rate, I will get buffering pauses. You would think transcoding would help, but the videos that exceed that rate also take too long to transcode down to a lower limit.
While plex does a wonderful job transcoding H265, I have found I can get H264 down to the same file sizes with no visual loss of quality. The advantage is it means I can still use my older hardware, such as my 3-D media player. The disadvantage is I bet when I upgrade to a 4K TV I’ll find my videos don’t scale as nicely, and I’ll end-up reencoding that.
Some people just keep raw rips. In which case a library like mine would be 10 times large. To me it is not worth it, since I would have to upgrade a significant amount of hardware to take advantage of higher quality. But it is one strategy to future yourself from having to re-rip you media again and again. I also keep MD5 checksums of all my files, because I have found in the past when hard drives start failing, that is the easiest way to spot the problem before it becomes critical. If you have the checksums you can then choose the correct copy to keep, if you have multiple copies.
About 8Tb
TV - 3269 Episodes
Movies - 3065
Animated Movies - 140
Full length documentaries - 78
Random TV\web informative videos - 168
Music tracks - 26439
TV Shows: 115
TV Episodes: 17,500+
Movies: 2700+
Music: 175,000+
Size on disk: 14TB
All stored on a DroboFS with 5 4TB drives giving me roughly 16TB of usable space after RAID 5. I’ve been building my library for more than 5 years now as I cut the cord just over 10 years ago and have had no type of “TV” since then. I do have an antenna and HDHomeRun so I can watch TV from a PC if I want but I only do that extremely rarely (when some world event happens I need to see on the news)
Closing in on 25Tb: 1,713 music videos/web shorts etc; 69 Fitness series for 860 episodes; 5833 Movies; 723 TV Series->2576 Seasons->43,203 episodes; 12,272 albums->173,960 tracks
