Mine is 186GiB. I have about 100 movies and 3 TV series on a two hard disks (one for backup). I don’t know if that is small or large.

How big is your collection?

      • @[email protected]
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        85 months ago

        Nowadays thats less than 10 drives. I literally just ordered 10 20 tb drives to fill my second nas.

        I have two synolygy 1019+ with ds 517 expansion units. That 10 drives for each set. Technically i could set that up to have about 400 tb usable.

        I buy factory recertified drives for about 200 ea. with a couple spares.yea its a chunk of change but not too crazy.

        I have multiple friends with more than a pb.

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          35 months ago

          have you ran into any issues with the reconditioned drives? the thought has never set easy with me

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            45 months ago

            Been running factory refurbished. Thats the important part. It must say factory refurbs. Ive had one failure in 5-6 years and was warranty replaced

  • @[email protected]
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    4451 movies

    398 series / 36130 episodes

    Taking up 25.48tb after conversion to HEVC compressing it ~40%

    Every series is monitored for new episodes which download automatically; and there’s a dozen or so public IMDB lists being monitored for new movies from studios/categories I like. Anything added to the lists gets downloaded automatically.

    Then there’s Ombi gathering media requests from my friends/family to be passed to sonarr/radarr and downloaded.

    At this point, the library continuously grows on its own, and I have to do little more than just tell it what I want to watch.

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      25 months ago

      What’s your process for recoding? I’m nearing 120tb used space and would like to re-encode some of the stuff my *arr stack grabbed before I got my profiles tuned in.

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        https://home.tdarr.io/

        I used to use the built in convert options in Emby server, but recently switched to Tdarr to manage all my conversions. It’s got far more control/configurablity to encode your files exactly how you’d like.

        It can also ‘health check’ files by transcoding them, but not saving the output; checking for errors during that process to ensure the file can actually be played through successfully. With 41k+ files to manage, that made it much easier to find and replace the dozen or so broken files I had, before I found them by trying to play them.

        Fore warning; this is a long and intensive process. Converting my entire library to HEVC using an RTX 2080 took me over 2 months non-stop. (not including health checks)

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          Awesome. Thanks for the info. I have been running Plex for years and started the switch to Jellyfin last year. Have a container running Emby but haven’t put any work in to configuring or much yet.

          Same situation with Tdarr. Threw together a quick container and got caught up in a billion other projects. I have an old 3600x / 1080ti system I’ll likely use as a transcoding node. Just need to go over the docs and figure out how to setup input / output paths.

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              15 months ago

              I’m not sure redownloading would save any time.

              I’d imagine there’s a way to set that up with the *arrs but my personal path of less resistance is to just recode what I got rather than figure a process to redownlod out. There’s is more resources than time at my disposal currently.

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                15 months ago

                I assume youve seen trashs guides. But yea I get it. Im sure your aware reencoding can kill quality too. Many grab the blueray and then reencode that to hevc just depends what works

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            15 months ago

            Configuring input/output paths are only really necessary when you have multiple systems that don’t see the media at the same paths. Such as a Linux server and a Windows node working together.

            Honestly, I just wish I’d have known about and set it up sooner:

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        Why not let *arrr find good HEVC releases by searching again? Just set remux to be considered as lower quality as the other releases, and *arr will upgrade the files by replacing remux with non-remux files. Did that, got many TiB back 😁

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          I may see how easy that is to set up. I noted above though, I’ve been learning the *arr stack piece by piece. And it never seems to quite work the way that I’m expecting it to so doing local recodes ends up being a more viable solution for me since I have a shit ton of processing power and limited time to read through things like trashes guide. Thank you for the suggestion though. Maybe if I get some time in the coming month to dig into my settings I’ll give that a shot. It would be cool to automate the recovery process that way.

          Cheers.

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          The majority of my stack as well as vehicles run off renewables / solar. So it’s hard to tell. May seem like some massive library but it has been accumulated over 25 or so years and is composed of a shit ton of physical rips from a pretty extensive library of everything from VHS and vinyl to uhd…

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              Overall it’s (currently) a couple jbods plugged in to a NUC. Total draw is at 81W currently. That’s based off of a quick remote check on my UPS.

              That’s a Ubiquiti Dream Machine Pro, Modem, Ubiquiti U7 Pro, 2 - 6 disc jbods running Seagate exos 20tb, and the NUC.

              There’s a secondary drive array but it only powers on once a week for a few hours to run backups/differentials. Even under that load I don’t really spike above 100W.

              Compared to the draw my old full rack with a couple loaded up r210’s has, this is incredibly efficient.

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                45 months ago

                That is incredibly efficient! Thanks for the info 🙂 I’ve wanted to be hoarder, but never thought I could afford it in the long run.

                It must be pretty loud though, no? One would need a dedicated room for it, I image.

                Anti Commercial-AI license

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                  35 months ago

                  I keep everything in a 10u rack in my garage so it doesn’t bother us much. That said, when it was in my office being configured, it was quieter than my desktop running a 5900x and 3080.

                  By design, NUC’s are super quiet and the jbods I’m using are cooled with 2 140mm fans running at about 50% most of the time.

                  Worth noting, I’ve been a metal fan and musician most of my life so my sensitivity isn’t very high compared to a lot of others.

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                15 months ago

                you’re just using jbod? with that many disks, aren’t you worried about them failing? or do you just redownload it if that happens

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                  I have a full mirror. If both arrays fail, I figure I have bigger problems and redownlod would be low on the list.

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                Which JBODs do you use for your 20TB Seagate Exos, and would you recommend?

                I’m looking for recommendations for a solution that will work for 3 × 22TB white-label Seagate Exos, but it seems to me that only very few of the various JBOD enclosures available online are actually good products worth buying, but it isn’t always clear to me if they even support 22TB drives…

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    Big, but orders of magnitude smaller than what all the Steam games I’ve bought at sales and never found the time to play would need if I installed them all at the same time.

    “Piracy” really is a service problem.

    (Fuck, I’ve got Amazon Prime for the free deliveries — it comes bundled around these parts and is surprisingly cheap — and I still torrent Amazon series because it’s more convenient and gives me better quality…)

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    Just to be clear: if Netflix would have high quality versions of ALL movies and series and now the bullshit it’s turning into, I would never Pirate. Too much trouble, too much work, too expensive. Netflix would be could be easy but instead it’s getting shittier by the minute.

    Don’t get me started on Amazon or disney

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    85 months ago

    These are some low bitrate movies. Mine is probably at least 10x that size but nowhere close 10x the content.

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    55 months ago

    Around 16 TiB and I keep 3 copies of everything so 48 TiB used of around 65TiB. I encoded all my TV shows and most of my movies with AV1 and keep most of my files compressed, which saves a bunch of space so hopefully I won’t need more drives any time soon

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    Round 30TB between music/tv/film/stand-up/books/comics/applications.

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    It’s pretty tiny, but as long as you’re happy that’s the main thing. My colleague at work is a sysadmin by thread so built a server with all the bells and whistles, then put it online and opened it to some friends and family. I forget the size but we’re talking somewhere near 100 Tb easy. I find it a bit excessive, if you ask me :P