Who has the largest library on Plexpass?
Who has the largest library in general?
I'm at about 2000 movies, 53 tv shows and 35 anime series...
I have 246 tv shows and 2546 movies
470 - TV Shows
5,846 - Movies
Tons of Lecture Series and Documentaries as well.
@smaka said:
Who has the largest library on Plexpass?Who has the largest library in general?
I’m at about 2000 movies, 53 tv shows and 35 anime series…
Obviously the biggest pirates do!
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Wow, and I thought my 1800 movies, 125 TV shows and about 125,000 mp3s was huge. A few of you guys are at a whole nuther level.
What about total disk space and what are you using for that? I have a Drobo FS with 5 3TB drives in it, RAID5 so about 11-12TB usable with my library being just over 9TB. I figure in the next year or so I’ll have to upgrade to all 4TB drives, that’ll be fun I’m sure.
1200 movies
112 TV Series, 5500 Episodes
250-300 Personal Videos (Clips - Home Videos - Etc…)
A little Music, but not my focus.
14 x 3TB Western Digital Reds - 7 Drives mirrored on 7 other drives for backup
(Raid-Shmaid, Whats wrong with individual drive letters, I say?)
Movies = 3790 (recent trim from 4100 ) (Majority 1080p)
TV Show = 691 (All types) (Majority 720p)
Episodes = 41002
21 Data Drives (3-4 TB) (66 TB of 73TB)
3 Parity Drives (4 TB)
SnapRAID Array
AUFS Pooling
Funny part is I’m dwarfed by a guy I share with. He has
Movies = 7200 (most 1080p)
TV = 1404 (Mostly 720p)
Episodes = 69,443
He doesn’t have any backup plan but has two 8 bay SAS with 6 TB drives filling each. I’m way more picky than he is. I can remember in 2002 and having two IBM 80GB GXP and thought that was pretty awesome. Good old Napster days.
@kevinkarada said:
He doesn’t have any backup plan
Speaking of backup plans, what are you guys with mega libraries doing for backup?
The best solution I’ve found so far is Amazon “Unlimited Everything” cloud storage. Its interface is a little quirky, but it has reasonable upload and download times which would be critical if one of my 8TB drives failed. I also have Crashplan online backup, but the restore (download) times would be ridiculous if I ever had a drive fail. I already had to make use of the amazon backup once when I accidentally deleted a folder that had about 80 movies in it. Got everything back in a reasonable amount of time.
I use 2-8TB’s now but keep everything backed up on 4TB’s that I was previously using. I will look into the Cloud storage though for convenience purposes.
6,500 films - 540 TV Shows, and a plethora of other media.
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I back up everything except my plex library (Well I have Star wars and some shows backed up)
OMFG ■■■■■■■ awesome and I thought i was a pretty large library? XDD
I have 984 microHD movies in Dual + subs Spanish English
and 83 TV Shows 3832 episodes (microHD 1080/720 mixed all in DUAL + subs too)
The Storage config is a UnRaid Server that share all the data through NFS to a Main plex Server.
Unraid:
Parity Drive:8TB Cold Storage Disk (I hope in a future I can have dual parity)
Data 2x2TB + 1x4TB+1x6TB.
SSD Write cache=256GB(This avoid that the parity drive stay spinning more time than required and better upload speeds)
Total of max space= 14TB
Library Size= 9TB
Idle Power consumption =28W
Full Power consumtpion = 82W
Main Plex Server is a mega powerfull server(OVH/Online.net) to be able to transcode atless 10 users at same time.
I use CacheFS to cache 1TB of data to the server(to avoid too much connection to Unraid Server and avoid
HDD spin up and upload bandwitch)
It’s work pretty fine. so with the CacheFS Normally only tries to connect to unraid when people want to see non common tv shows or movies, all the commons are automatically cached.
I have a pretty large library that me and my brothers made, we’re all huge movie geeks and we buy the movie and rip them ourself. (bitrate on all my are 12,000 and up) we have 1500 and counting and no TVshows, we won’t buy that. Do t see the reason since we have cable
All owned materials (no copyright violation, just federal ripping violations):
Libraries:
Movies: 814
Tablo Movies: 152
Tablo Movies Zapped (commercials removed): 83
TV (show/episodes): 82/3915
Tablo TV: 20/1223
Tablo TV Zapped: 6/130
Music (artist/albums): 149/390
Other Music: 40/83
Obviously not the largest, just things we are interested in.
PMS is a Lenovo Q190, Celeron 887 with 4G, 500GB internal, 2 x 1TB USB, 2 x 3TB USB. About 35W in use max (transcoding), 22W normal and 14W idle. Can transode one 1080p stream, but I rip for Direct Play on through the majority of our devices. My Plex music library I listen to going to work and coming home (1 hour each way). I have some demo media stored as mpeg2 (DVD straight) … it’s all seasons of Star Trek TOS (for demoing remote viewing off my phone with transcoding).
Backup PMS (only on when processing new media for the main PMS) is a 16 way Opteron (2 true 8 core CPUs) with 32G. I don’t need the power for Plex processing, it’s also my hypervisor host. All media is processed and stored there before copying to the primary PMS host. So, I have backups media wise, just might have to do some metadata wrangling if we lost our primary PMS (Q190 was built in 2013).
Plan is to move the backup storage to a QNAP NAS (TVS-863+?? mainly for space reasons) maybe this year. I won’t be trying to run Plex on it, though I could.
@segator said:
OMFG ■■■■■■■ awesome and I thought i was a pretty large library? XDDI have 984 microHD movies in Dual + subs Spanish English
and 83 TV Shows 3832 episodes (microHD 1080/720 mixed all in DUAL + subs too)The Storage config is a UnRaid Server that share all the data through NFS to a Main plex Server.
Unraid:
Parity Drive:8TB Cold Storage Disk (I hope in a future I can have dual parity)
Data 2x2TB + 1x4TB+1x6TB.
SSD Write cache=256GB(This avoid that the parity drive stay spinning more time than required and better upload speeds)
Total of max space= 14TB
Library Size= 9TB
Idle Power consumption =28W
Full Power consumtpion = 82WMain Plex Server is a mega powerfull server(OVH/Online.net) to be able to transcode atless 10 users at same time.
I use CacheFS to cache 1TB of data to the server(to avoid too much connection to Unraid Server and avoid
HDD spin up and upload bandwitch)It’s work pretty fine. so with the CacheFS Normally only tries to connect to unraid when people want to see non common tv shows or movies, all the commons are automatically cached.
impressive numbers… especially given the lower power consumption!
Thought better of it and retracted my library stats.
How is the government or Hollywood NOT going after these large (Obviously pirated) collections of content? If you go live with remote access and have hundreds of users viewing your collection, isn’t that worth a look from the powers that be and Plex shutting you down?
@Arcesitor said:
How is the government or Hollywood NOT going after these large (Obviously pirated) collections of content? If you go live with remote access and have hundreds of users viewing your collection, isn’t that worth a look from the powers that be and Plex shutting you down?
IMHO, unless you are publicly sharing your library/files via torrents or posting files on Usenet or similar you probably won’t be on the radar screen. They are after people who are making these file accessible to others and not so much those getting the files. The fact you run a Plex server and maybe share PRIVATELY with friends and family won’t get you on their radar screen.
Keep in mind it’s one thing to be making copyright works available on the public internet vs just having said files in your collection. Who is to know if you own disks (DVD/Bluray, CD), have UV license or just records movies/shows with a capture device?
That leads to the second topic. A big library doesn’t mean it’s full of pirated material. I know I personally have a wall (couple) full of DVD/BluRay disks. I also have multiple tuners recording stuff all day long and have been doing this for probably 15 years (Beyond TV, Sage TV, Myth TV and presently Emby). Regardless of my source, every file gets processed (commercials cut, converted to a streaming format for mp4). Even if someone were to try and create hashes of my files to compare to some other source they won’t match. All my files are going to be unique to my system.
Sorry for the distraction, but I just wanted to comment on the question being asked. With that said my current stats are usually in my sig.
Carlo
One thing it keep in mind, if you’re sharing your plex to more than a handful of people, you better:
- have the bandwidth to push to multiple people at once.
- have the cpu to transcode for those that need it or at least pre-optimize your library where you can.
- be able to keep your plex up the entire time.
I know if I can transcode more than 2-3 streams at a time I’m lucky. And that’s with a 8 core machine. As an example, if someone shared to 25 people, most of the time everyone would be buffering once more then 4 people sat down for a Friday night movie. So having a lot of people to have access to your Plex library on a single machine would quickly be over subscribed. That said, more PCs looking at the same network disk will quickly hit a bandwidth limit. So, while there is some room for scalability, it quickly become prohibitive.
