Ditched Netflix and Hulu and set up another Plex server (had one a couple years ago).
Currently have about 305 movies (4.3TB) and 202 TV shows (37.7TB) and many more to come. I share it with my housemate and a few friends and family. Although honestly I find messing with it far more interesting than actually watching the content.
Server specs are currently a junky old AMD FX-8320 CPU, only because I had it floating around and the motherboard I have for it had 6 SATA III ports onboard and a ton of PCI-E x16 ports for more SATA HBAs, 16GB of RAM, and a GeForce 750Ti 2GB for transcoding.
As far as drives it's a hodgepode of both old drives I had floating around with over 60K hours to brand new drives to random laptop drives pulled from laptops that were upgraded to SSDs. I'm running all of them in DrivePool with no file duplication because if a drive fails and the data is lost I can just rescan the disks with Radarr and Sonarr which I'm using for media management and acquire the now missing episodes and movies easily. No point for RAID or Storage Spaces or anything when it's just a bunch of "Linux ISOs" *cough* on there anyway.
The biggest challenge has been... how do I fit all these drives in one case. Well, I kinda can't. My current case is a huge Nanoxia case I got for free used. Currently have a bunch of 3.5" drives in there as well as a few 2.5x" drives. Then I have two more drives connected via USB. I have to find the right screws but I do have a 3x 3.5" to 5.25" bay adapter already in there so I can move all those USB drives inside. Then I'm in the process of custom fabricating an external drive enclosure for up to 8 more 3.5" drives complete with its own power supply and fans. Once that's complete I'll reorganize everything, do proper cable management, and mount all the drives properly. So I don't want to hear anything about "that looks messy" haha. I also have two more drives on the way, a 6TB WD Black I got for free that was bad but under warranty so I RMAd it with less than a week left on the warranty, then a 4TB WD Red Plus that arrived DOA and I'm going to get a replacement for. Currently due to the Chia Crypto craze larger drives 8TB+ aren't a good deal, but eventually I'll run out of space completely and start replacing my old/used/small drives with larger capacity ones.
Currently have about 305 movies (4.3TB) and 202 TV shows (37.7TB) and many more to come. I share it with my housemate and a few friends and family. Although honestly I find messing with it far more interesting than actually watching the content.
Server specs are currently a junky old AMD FX-8320 CPU, only because I had it floating around and the motherboard I have for it had 6 SATA III ports onboard and a ton of PCI-E x16 ports for more SATA HBAs, 16GB of RAM, and a GeForce 750Ti 2GB for transcoding.
As far as drives it's a hodgepode of both old drives I had floating around with over 60K hours to brand new drives to random laptop drives pulled from laptops that were upgraded to SSDs. I'm running all of them in DrivePool with no file duplication because if a drive fails and the data is lost I can just rescan the disks with Radarr and Sonarr which I'm using for media management and acquire the now missing episodes and movies easily. No point for RAID or Storage Spaces or anything when it's just a bunch of "Linux ISOs" *cough* on there anyway.
The biggest challenge has been... how do I fit all these drives in one case. Well, I kinda can't. My current case is a huge Nanoxia case I got for free used. Currently have a bunch of 3.5" drives in there as well as a few 2.5x" drives. Then I have two more drives connected via USB. I have to find the right screws but I do have a 3x 3.5" to 5.25" bay adapter already in there so I can move all those USB drives inside. Then I'm in the process of custom fabricating an external drive enclosure for up to 8 more 3.5" drives complete with its own power supply and fans. Once that's complete I'll reorganize everything, do proper cable management, and mount all the drives properly. So I don't want to hear anything about "that looks messy" haha. I also have two more drives on the way, a 6TB WD Black I got for free that was bad but under warranty so I RMAd it with less than a week left on the warranty, then a 4TB WD Red Plus that arrived DOA and I'm going to get a replacement for. Currently due to the Chia Crypto craze larger drives 8TB+ aren't a good deal, but eventually I'll run out of space completely and start replacing my old/used/small drives with larger capacity ones.