Good lord @bodazepha31, and I thought my collection was huge. I bow to your collection…
I have about 8tb worth of media. 756 High end quality bluray rips encodes about 15-22gb each and some tv shows
Thank you kindly @rosscarlson! When I see mentions of some of the even BIGGER collections I think…challenge accepted!! (And I don’t waste space with huge blu-ray rips either, lol)
Approaching 10TB… nearly 800 movies, less than 100 episodes of various shows and a little over 13,000 songs. There is a mixture of BDR images (still waiting for Plex support… lol), super high bitrate encodings, lossless audio tracks and varying degrees of compression in between. All running great with plenty of room for expansion (although I say that every time I buy a pair of HDDs, lol)
I currently have 2850 movies in my library with an additional 170 or so TV shows with around 2,000 episodes.
I have 64TB (59.5 actual size) loaded onto a HPdl580 server with 4x hexcore processors and 96GB ram. 6189 movie titles and 21660 TV titles (240 shows). I may have a problem… :-S
@bodazepha31 said:
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
How can you squeeze 43203 episodes and 5833 Movies onto 25TB? You must have SD quality on everything?
I have a large collection of tv from the 70’s and 80’s for which there is no hd. That saves space there, I keep newer tv to hd size of @150mb sitcom, 345mb for ‘hour-long’ as much as possible. I don’t get ■■■■ about 1080p or blu Ray sizes/quality, never have. Economy of scale works for me-it is a quality I like and allows me to maximize space.
For movies, I generally run less than a gig if it’s a comedy or something not needing to looking sweet on my 70". For others I try to stick to 1-3gig size and 720p. Until I can upgrade further, or the amazon cloud project really takes off, I find my transcoding bogs down going over 720p. That’s just what works best for me so far. Fan-edits are a different ball of wax, pretty much have to take what size I can get there. Collectors can’t always be picky 
@yows said:
@bodazepha31 said:
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 tracksHow can you squeeze 43203 episodes and 5833 Movies onto 25TB? You must have SD quality on everything?
Lol, then I forgot to tag you in the responses…
Thought I would weigh in here… 160TB raw storage on 2 8 bay Synology DS 2015xs - lose a bunch of space with SHR turned on so total of around 115 TB usable storage
6676 Movies
1071 TV Shows with 72114 episodes
Just under 48 TB of media!
Everything, I mean everything, I own is on Plex. DVD’s, Blue Rays, CD’s, photos, favorite TV series… I’m up to 8200+ movies operating on two Dell 12 hard drive servers. So far, I have 5 - 6tb hard drives in use with the other 7 bays in reserve…and still growing. By using two servers, this is backed up to the secondary server each evening to keep two servers with duplicate movies (no failures or loss!). I would be interested if anyone else has actually rack mounted their Plex server system.
kc4mhh - I just rack mounted my setup. Built a server closet to house Plex hardware, Home security camera recorder, battery back ups, and home networking
33.5TB
4k HDR - 71 movies
720p/1080p - >3000 movies
480p TV and TV minisieries - >280 (entire series)
Music and audiobooks - >75,000
Just moved servers.
Old setup:
2011 Mac mini i5 / 8GB / 256gb HDD
Drobo 5D with 5x 8TB drives
1x HDHomerun Extend
Cisco EA1600
Netgear 8 port 10/100 switch
New Setup:
Dimension T5500 / Dual Xeon X5690 (2x 6core HT = 24cores @ 3.46ghz) / 72GB ram / 256gb SSD / 2x Radeon R9 270 3GB / 2x 1TB 2.5 drives (raid 1 for Plex metadata) / 5x 8TB HDD in raid 5
Drobo B810n - 8x 10TB drives
2x HDHomerun Extend
Asus AC5300 ROG
Dell 5324 24port 1Gbps switch
Cyberpower TrueSine 1325 for the small stuff (modem, router, HDHomeruns, security camera recorder, etc)
2x Tripplite SmartPro 1500 for the big stuff (switch, drobo, server)
It should be a while until I need another upgrade on anything.
Come on folks. Everyone knows it is not the size that matters but rather it is how you use it. >:)
My little library is about 3000 movies, 30000 TV episodes and 2000 photos but I use it quite well.
I got 8’354 Movies and 517 TV-Shows (34’344 episodes)
I convert every media to mp4 with multiple auto where available
A friend got the same system and every night it copies the new/missing files to the other server.
Both servers got 70TB on media-space where 63% is uses at the moment.
Fairly new, but been looking to build a large Movie library. Still running off PC, but planning to get a nas. currently, with everything I do with my pc, i got 2, 2tb external hdds, a 3tb external HDD, and 1tb internal. The 2tb is full with a large chunk of tv shows.
Total, I’m at 137 TV Shows totaling 2,461GB (Blame having 29 seasons of cops, 24 seasons of how it’s made, etc… I want to add the complete, unedited seasons 1 and 2 of Live PD, but I don’t think I can fit them yet)
Movies I’m at 852 movies totaling 940gb. At my first chance, I plan to get a 4 bay NAS and start with a large drive. Eventually I’ll probably get a second equal size drive (ideally, I’d like to get 2 10 tbs, so I don’t have to worry for a while) then run them in raid 1 for redundancy. If you have a NAS and aren’t running redundant storage, I’d recommend it. I would cry if all the digitizing I’ve done were to disappear. It took me a while to get all of this settled.
As for storage recommendations, I can’t recommend getting a NAS enough. Running your PC 24/7 (though I’ve done it for years) isn’t good. The hardware isn’t designed to run like that. Hence the difference between Western Digital’s Blue and Red drives. You’ll notice a lot of WD drives that are bundled with a NAS are WD Red. The Red is their server grade. You’ll notice they run at 5400 rpms, rather than the usual 7200 rpms. I can imagine this, along with other features, make them optimal for extended, always on use. Plus, it’s less power consumption to use a NAS. If you are doing a small server, then don’t bother. Get a single networked HDD and run plex on your computer. If you want to get serious, like some of these collections with thousands +, get a nas. Spend more on a better nas, and upgrade HDD as you can.
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