Bittorrule
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Jellyfin and fuck.
Jellyfin and stick it in
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The Standard Plan for Nextflix is about 216 bucks a year. A new 10gb HDD runs around $200. Less if you look for deals and/or go for refurbished. But a total of 20tb of storage would be equivalent to two years of Netflix without ads if paying for brand new drives and not looking for deals.
i got 18tb drives at £190 a few years ago, pretty much all streaming services are about £100 each a year.
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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.
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How do people have so much money to buy so much storage?
I made do with a bit over 2 Tb for a bit over 15 years.
But earlier this year I bought two 3 Tb drives, and they’re a bit more expensive here in Denmark due to 25% VAT, so it was 648 DKK per drive (or $101 USD / €87 EUR). And I’m on the lowest income you can get here.
So it is possible to upgrade every now and then, and I’m very happy I’m now on 6 Tb storage (+ 2 Tb NVMe main drive, though not for storage).
I imagine if I had a job in IT, I’d be swimming in it, I’d probably have nerded out on a NAS, though even now I don’t see what I’d need it for. -
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I actually did this 3 years ago… and it also legitimately worked.
Yeah I got sick of Plex before it was cool, lol.
Granted, only 15 of the 20 TB was for movies… gotta have some space for a miniature personal archive of selected written works, as well as music.
You know, for the uh… playlist.
Ahem.
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How do people have so much money to buy so much storage?
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?
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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
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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
Install the package, chuck files at it, it basically runs itself.
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Install the package, chuck files at it, it basically runs itself.
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
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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.
