Hi,
I am planning to build Plex Server and have no clue, how much space does metadata like posters, covers etc. take?
I have arround 700 movies and 500 CD albums.
With about half of the media you are proposing, on my Windows 7 installation of PLEX, the whole PLEX program directory consumes approximately 6.9 GB of drive space and the metadata sub-directory therein consumes approximately 1.7 GB of the drive…
One thing to keep in mind if space is a consideration is BIF (Roku indexing) creation. If you turn this feature on it will SUCK UP space like crazy.
How about chapter creation? That might help aswell.
Here’s what I’d suggest to figure out sizes.
Create a lib of a know size like 250 media object without any of the space hogging options enabled. Check size of meta-data on disk.
Enable indexing, let it do it’s thing and finish then check disk space.
Enable Roku indexing (BIF), let it build them all, check disk space.
Do this for any specific options you might want to know about.
You should be able to roughly calculate sizes needed this way using your own media.
You can then blow away that test library and have Plex cleanup after itself to reduce the meta-data size again.
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