Bittorrule

those are rookie numbers

How do people have so much money to buy so much storage?

Jellyfin and fuck.

Okay, I want to see your RAID.

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.

Gotta start somewhere

My nas started with a pile of old 2-8tb drives I had amassed through the years from fixing computers and upgrading storage of various things. Back then 20tb was crazy. Now I have a nas where a single drive is 18tb and the full array is over 200tb.

I highly encourage anyone to build with whatever you can. Get off streaming, save your money. You can run this shit on a raspberry pi with a 4tb hard drive for under $100, probably way less with a refurb drive and a used pi. Or buy an old ewaste pc for $1-200 and stuff it with drives.

it doesn’t need to be a workhorse unless you want to create some monster Jellyfin server that can transcode 8+ uhd remux streams concurrently (and even then it doesn’t have to be that crazy, 10th gen intel igpu will handle a lot). But if you genuinely need that many streams you’ll probably need a gpu so make sure you get something with a pcie slot of appropriate bandwidth (x16 most likely)

Additionally if you truly want to stuff it full of drives def make sure it has pcie x16 so you can add hba card. Most mobos (especially office pcs and stuff like old dells and thinkcenters) come with like 2-4 sata ports max. Lsi 9300-8i or 16i will add 8 or 16 sata lanes for like $30-50 bucks (though beware of the many counterfeits) and you’ll either have to move to a new case ($) or fashion some kind of external drive bay (sff cables running out of host of to whatever drive bay)

You don’t have to buy it all at once

@basiclemmon98@lemmy.dbzer0.com Ah shit. Not again. I hate it when this happens!

Self-hosting is pretty cool. I want to buy a nas

10 gb hdd for 200$? Dude I have a bridge to sell you

Jellyfin and stick it in

i got 18tb drives at £190 a few years ago, pretty much all streaming services are about £100 each a year.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.