How big is YOUR collection?

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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?

92

Thats about a few days worth of downloads for me. Over 150tb raw 80 tb used

Damn...got a rack server full of drives?

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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)

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.

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:

Why dont you just redownload hevc on whats available and convert the rest?

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.

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

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 😁

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.

What's your electricity bill like? That's 0.12 pb. Monstrous in my opinion.

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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..

Pretty cool that you're able to use renewable energy. Do you know how much power it consumes? And do you have a backup power supply? Uninterrupted Power Supply I think it's called.

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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.

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...

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

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

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.

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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.

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

55TB

3,500 movies, 28,000 TV show episodes, 120,000 audio tracks, and pretty much every single PlayStation/Sega/Nintendo game ever released.

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

Yes, I have little bandwidth so I always download low bitrate ones.

About 14TB. Which reminds me, gonna need a new drive to drop in the NAS soon.

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

Over 2500 movies and over 200 series. There is a lot of todo maintenance (adding subtitles, converting some movies that are still in blueray or dvd iso) and in total some 100TB. A lot of it is lower quality, working on improving that

Edit: it's a huge amount of work and money and I'm only doing it as a sort of hobby since netix turned to shit. Give me one provider that can show me everything from every country, whenever I want, on whatever devit I want, no gro blocking, no ad bullshit, and I'd happily pay twice, three times the amount I do now. But here we are, and here is my collection because half the shit I have can't be watched anywhere else. Fuck the enshitification

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

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

I have no collection whatsoever. Everything that I watched gets deleted from the seedbox. A maximum of 900GB are stored on there at any given time. It’s cheap and no hassle to maintain.

About 12 tb. 3 12 tb hdds, raid 5. Run arr suite, qbittorrent, jellyfin, and some non piracy related things. I should get a proper backup, but money.

1,200 movies
200 shows
Smattering of books and a few GBs of music
Oh and every game for every console older than the PS2

Originally across multiple 4tb external drives but been mostly pushed to one nas 8tb drive in my case.

Just over a terabyte spread over two drives not including whatever I put in my backup.

As big as whatever I'm consuming hasn't been consumed yet or reached 3.0 ratio.

Rougly 3TB of TV shows (720p) and films (1080p, x265 at around 4mbps that I ripped myself including the subs and multiple language tracks), as well as about 500GB of music (FLAC) most of it from my physical library.

765 movies (~4.5 TB)

161 tv series (~7.2 TB)

About a year ago 6TB storage was no longer cutting it since I was constantly having to hunt for media to delete or downgrade quality in order to make more room. I bought five 14TB drives and put them in a big zfs pool so I don't have to do that anymore.

  • About 1,400 movies: 6.7TB
  • About 15,100 episodes: 10.9TB

Spread across a couple of NASes, each with 4 x 4TB drives in RAID5.

download movie -> watch movie -> seed it for a while, at least some days -> delete

I have like 10 movies saved for archival, because it was hard to find them

I have an entire series of Breaking Bad and that alone is almost 100GB and 320GB+ of anime also another 200GB if you count games all store in an external 1TB hard drive and that's puny compared to other people collection I saw online

About 9tb. 100 days worth of music, 300 or so shows and over 1000 movies. Just recently started to get /convert everything to 1080p.

I have about 24TB, lots of stuff backed up over many years, and not all of it pirated. In making backups over such a long period of time, I've actually managed to make redundant backups, so a recent project of mine is to just go to my NAS and organize, consolidate, and otherwise delete things I don't actually wish to keep. I've saved a couple TBs and I hope to free up a few more TBs.

40GiB of game ROMs of all sorts. A ton of snes/megadrive oldies, some PS1 stuff.

Now I want to expand to Wii and Gamecube...

it is not too much. do you have some nostalgia about these times or prefer some old consoles rather than the newer ones?

I think old school gaming in general was simpler and more enjoyable/to the point. I have most nostalgia for PS1 stuff, but I really like a bit of everything

I don't keep any TV series after I watch them, unless someone else with access to my Jellyfin wants to watch too. So my collection is relatively small at a few terabytes.

42TiB (I managed to get about 5TiB back by defining remux to be lower quality as "normal" releases in the arr* apps 😎) Now I can finally add more media

Lmao.

Mine is small, since I have a shit ton of physical media going back into the eighties

So, only about 3 tb, most of which is music in lossless formats. But, I also purge video that I don't watch at least yearly, so it could be bigger.

7 TB in music, tv and movies
Dunno how much is what.
Recently uograded from a single 7TB HDD to a 4x16TB NAS in RaidZ2

.5TB but I'm still a student so I'm pretty happy about it

Like 50GB of music, probably about 30gb of shows. though I only started downloading shows very recently, like earlier this year.

Not big, but I have a few degenerate hoarding friends I mooch off of

With just shows in general, I have a fair amount. Don't know the exact amount of cartoons, but I got a 1TB external drive almost full of them, a single live actions show from the 90s, a single live action movie, a few animated films, and a whole comic set. As for games, I don't count by size, nor do I know how many since they're not stored on a drive. I specifically got a 2TB external drive (both drives Seagate) for if I ever find more shows/whatever I wanna collect, but I have yet to find something I desperately want.

That, and I still need to use it to back up files so I can switch operating systems on my desktop.

Edit:

No idea how much music I've downloaded from yt using things like NewPipe, but I got a good amount. I'd assume this counts as piracy too, since I'm certain the people in charge of the music industry don't like you being able to do that.

About 8GiB thumb drive. I don't hang on to much

I do the same. I have 500GiB storage for my Pi4, which I use for torrenting and Kodi. I delete stuff if I watched it and it reaches 2:1 seed ratio, or after a couple of months. So in a way I don't really have a collection.

12tb on the fileserver (Enigma)

Big Finish and music live on my main rig.

Mostly games. Maybe 30 ish GB, probably an understatement but I don't have that much storage

I know somebody that just recently had to buy another drive for their 32TB unraid media server that runs in a DIY clean box in the basement. Is that small or large? I can't imagine myself doing that much crime.