Bittorrule
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How do people have so much money to buy so much storage?
Trick is to buy used disks. My entire raid pool is cobbled together from large-ish drives that got pulled from commercial servers and sold off on the cheap. Last set i bought was 3x14tb for $400.
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How’s the barrier to entry for Jellyfin? I just got done investing in Plex when they started changing their payment model
Jellyfin is great if you are only streaming content locally. If you have people outside your network trying to stream, it is more cumbersome to set up than Plex
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How’s the barrier to entry for Jellyfin? I just got done investing in Plex when they started changing their payment model
Harder than plex to set up, but not difficult.
If you want to watch outside the network then you’ll need to port forward.
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Nowadays that could just be an external drive bay with a few HDDs + ZFS.
Or if you just want to rawdog it with no redundancy they make single hard drives with 20 TB capacity now.
Yeah, I had two 10s but replaced one of them with a 20.
I need to get a proper setup.
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Is there a time investment for scanning and importing my library? That’s where Plex got me, so much stuff to sort and edit metadata after getting started
If your library has sensible file names it’ll do it all for you. If you can export .nfo files from Plex (I don’t know, never used Plex), Jellyfin will scan those too. Just add the library to Jellyfin and forget all about it for an hour or two.
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You got to learn how to shuck those Western digital drives when they go on sale.
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Don’t call me out like this. XD
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Mines “in the cloud” and my 20TB storage box is almost full
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Harder than plex to set up, but not difficult.
If you want to watch outside the network then you’ll need to port forward.
Or reverse proxy, but that’s a bit more complex
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Harder than plex to set up, but not difficult.
If you want to watch outside the network then you’ll need to port forward.
So if you want to watch outside you’re home network, the solution is to blow a hole through your firewall and just raw dog the internet through it? Air out your delicious little jelly hole for the world to see?
I wonder how we teach the kids about VPNs? Clearly their favorite brainrot youchubers/twitchies/tiktogglers nordvpn ads aren’t getting through…
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4 x 5 TB internal HDDs costs roughly $500.
Thats roughly a Switch 2 or Steam Deck…
… or about $42 a month, for a year, of maybe what, 2 simultaneous subscription services?
Netflix premium (4k) is like $7.35/month. But HDDs are not comparatively cheaper.
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Nowadays that could just be an external drive bay with a few HDDs + ZFS.
Or if you just want to rawdog it with no redundancy they make single hard drives with 20 TB capacity now.
This is what I do, 2 different speced 20 TB drives. One NAS speced drive that’s actually installed in the PC, and one budget drive that’s in an external enclosure and is periodically used for back up. No need to be fancy.
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Harder than plex to set up, but not difficult.
If you want to watch outside the network then you’ll need to port forward.
You really shouldn’t port forward Jellyfin. Hell, you really shouldn’t port forward anything. A domain is like a dollar per month. Use a reverse proxy with some sort of login gate like Authentik or Authelia.
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Mines “in the cloud” and my 20TB storage box is almost full
Hmm curious, what’s the cost for something like that? Do you also encrypt / employ any security for the data?
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Hmm curious, what’s the cost for something like that? Do you also encrypt / employ any security for the data?
My total cost for the VPS that runs my stack, plus the Hetzner storage box is around $50 USD/mo.
I have the storage box mounted as an encrypted volume using rclone.
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My total cost for the VPS that runs my stack, plus the Hetzner storage box is around $50 USD/mo.
I have the storage box mounted as an encrypted volume using rclone.
Got ya, thanks for the reply! Ive got 2x8tb for 16tb total and thats worked for me for years. The drives are getting old and I’ve been worried about the data. Checking out other drives but it would be nice to just… not deal with hardware. Is there any upload / download rates?
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Self-hosting is pretty cool. I want to buy a nas
the best nas is the grimiest most disgusting computer you already own, filled to the brim with hard drives and shoved in the basement to slave away at media consumption and file sharing
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You got to learn how to shuck those Western digital drives when they go on sale.
Shucking drives? What part of JBOD did you not understand. Half of them don’t even fit in the case, they are just piled up on top of each other.
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You really shouldn’t port forward Jellyfin. Hell, you really shouldn’t port forward anything. A domain is like a dollar per month. Use a reverse proxy with some sort of login gate like Authentik or Authelia.
Just use a tunneling service like tailscale. Easy as fug to set up, and only people who know your credentials can poke about in your server.
If you remember to disconnect machines other than the server from the VPN when not using them and don’t share out the server too much, you don’t even have to spend money.
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Plex & sex
Emby & embrace
Jellyfin & sin
