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.
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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.
6TiB, backed up to the cloud. So 12TiB in total
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
I don't have one lol
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
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.
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.
3TB most of it from Kemono or anime piracy.
As big as whatever I'm consuming hasn't been consumed yet or reached 3.0 ratio.
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.
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.
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.
how do you get that metric? is that grafana?
That's just the statistics pluggin on Emby server.
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.
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.
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.
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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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Round 30TB between music/tv/film/stand-up/books/comics/applications.
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.
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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.
About 8.5TB of tv shows and movies.
7 inches
Hard drive or floppy?
Just over a terabyte spread over two drives not including whatever I put in my backup.
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.
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Much, much larger.
Currently 40.2 TB, around 1800 movies, 430 TV shows and 4600 albums.
Nice.
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.
Nice try FBI 😎
Ah shit we're uncovered 🤦
You can say size, just say it's all old public domain stuff like mine is.
I converted all my DVD's so I can watch them more easily.
Came here to say the same thing.