1000 movies
100 tv shows
504 albums
all stored on a freeness 9.3 server with 4 x 2TB drives for ~6TB storage in raidz1 ZFS hosted on an hp N54l micro server.
Freenas also backs up the other laptops and PC's in the house.
@Chris-t that sounds like a sweet set up, would love to build a freenas machine
@Woody1130
Go for it, its really easy to do especially as a test, make sure you read and understand the raidz if you want some integrity against disk failure. There is also the added benefit of a plex plugin so you can run plex application direct from the freeness server, helps to keep the number of physical machines spinning to a minimum :)
2600+ Movies
207 TV Series
- 792 seasons
- 10K+ episodes
30K+ Music
207 Audio Books
36 concerts
Misc Workout and other video files
Originally I started out with a 400 Disc DVD player, but found the time lag when selecting movies was insane, moved to digital with XBMC, digitized all the DVD's, but after losing 2 HD's (with data loss) in as many years I looked for a raid system, settled for unraid because of the support and ease of use.
PMS on unraid dedicated server 15+TB storage, PHT on several computers on TV's around the house, running on a Gb network. I originally had everything running on xbmc, but moved over to plex because of the unraid compatibility, while there are tons of features I loved about xbmc which plex does not offer, I ended up staying with plex for the time being until something better comes along.
I have a (seemingly) rather small library with 650 movies and 45 TV shows, but am glad to see this thread. I haven't tried using collections, but think the way it's set up now works best for compilations. I also have a rather large music library that I'm slowing adding--mostly because of the time consuming/never ending tag editing. Any tips here are appreciated.
I'm currently sharing with my buddy in DC, though he hasn't been active in a while.
I use MusicBrainz Picard, it uses gracenote for looking up albums and tagging correctly, and after tagging 30K+ audio files I found it to be the fastest and easiest to use.
33TB (6TB free) on unRaid server (v6 b12 with PMS docker) played through (2) Roku 3s and an HD Dune media player. I share via Cloud sync since my Frontier FIOS 25/10 sux for direct connect especially during prime time.
1199 BRD movies, all ripped to MKV.
1553 MP3 music
Server 1:
Movies - 1148
TV Shows - 46 Series, 3697 Episodes
59 Music Related shows
Server 2:
Music Albums - 2949
I have 12 users but have been running into the issue of exceeding my monthly bandwidth limit of 300gb, damn Comcast.......
i have a old dvr with 9TB
movies 1547
tv show 121 some full shows some are new shows and some are kids shows kinda my family mix
then i have 1 TB of music files mostly mp3 some flac
500 gig of a 3 TB full of pictures
2 rasberry pii
3 samsung galaxy 7.1 tabs
1 samsung tv that controls a pii through the factory remote
2 smart phones
My main goal is to replace all my hdd with enterprise level drives that are designed for video surveillance because they are meant to be work horses and have constant read write capabilities. I would like to get 5 3tb drives so i can configure a stable raid system.
Movies: 1888
TV Shows: 107
1516 movies 7890 TV episodes but, that’s everything my entire family has all on one plex
Update to my counts
185 3D Movies
727 Learning Videos
7625 Movies
704 Music Videos
1150 NFL Games
14575 TV Episodes (188 Shows, 906 Seasons)
12,000 Music Albums
Carlo
Oooohhh.... I just found out that Target has a boatload of blurays for $10 each. Guess where I am going tonight? :D
The movie count will increase by at least 15 this week. :lol:
Oooohhh.... I just found out that Target has a boatload of blurays for $10 each. Guess where I am going tonight? :D
The movie count will increase by at least 15 this week. :lol:
If I had $150 to spend on movies, I'd add another 3 or 4 Terabytes of storage.
Ugh.
533 shows / 49677 episodes / 2181 Movies
It is currently all stored on three external eSATA RAID 5 arrays (12TB, 6TB, 3TB), but I've decided to move everything to a used Supermicro FreeNAS server with 32TB RAIDZ1 array (once they start shipping the Seagate 8TB archive drives). I'll keep the eSATA drives as backup until I can get another set of 5 8TB drives in about a year. The Supermicro server has 16 bays and I'm thinking I'll fill it with three five drive RAIDZ1 arrays and a single boot drive.
I've been testing the server for the last 6 weeks with 4 2TB drives in a 6TB RAIDZ1 array and it's performing much better than my old server (an old 2008 Mac Pro).
I really recommend looking on eBay for these servers, they're quite cheap and seem very reliable. This one came with dual quad core Xeon processors and 32GB ECC RAM (half the slots are still empty), the 16 drive backplane and dual redundant power supplies. It was around $400 used and the only other thing I had to buy were two 8 port SATA cards for about $60 and, of course, the drives.
You do need a partially soundproof closet or garage where you can store the server as it's quite loud with all the fans running, but well worth it if you can find a soundproof place for it.
Larry
96TB of Storage. Admittedly, almost all of it is in MB3, which I love.. I'm trying Plex for a different purpose (PS4) and to break out temporary folders and non archives.. though I may use both for different purposes, we'll see.
3430 Movies
142 Series
All straight BD/DVD Rips either ISO or MKV for the most part (series are different, almost all MKV).. space is cheap. I just went from 36TB to 96TB, using FlexRAID in a chasis running Windows 8.1.
FYI, the trick so far to movies is simple.. craigslist and Amazon $1 and used sales. I absolutely stack up.. hell, I just picked up another 30 titles I wanted on Amazon for $62+shipping. Just grab the $2/$3 movies you love (not trash) surprisingly there are a lot of them. Well, that and I bought an HD-DVD/BDROM drive a few years ago (a pair of them) that I found at Microcenter for $14 on clearance.. I bought a collection of a whole damn box full of HD-DVD on Craigslist for $5.
1913 Movies
858 Tv Series
43TB
I do not like to communicate on the number of files, but I can do on my connection at home :
thank to my ISP.
But that’s not the title of this thread. 
With a full boat of stuff running and with a few movies being streamed.
Yes boys and girls… those are Mega’bits’ per second.
Read’em and weep.
After you pick yourself up off the floor from laughter…
Yes, that’s a decimal point, and yes, I have $#it bandwidth here at work.
Sometimes things are so ridiculous that I have to actually capture an image and email it to my ISP.
I’m wireless to my ISP, and it sucks.
Got 66 down and 7 up at home.
Charter.
[Sorry to continue off topic… but I just couldn’t pass up a good laugh]
