Hi, I’m self hosting a jellyfin server and I wondering if anyone could give advice abt my setup. I have an internal 2tb ssd and I’m using a external 2tb ssd. I’m looking to make my setup more cohesive and less of a headache. I want more storage for media but I don’t know where to start. I looked online to price compare drives and I saw a 14tb hhd for $160, is this a good price for a hard drive? I also haven’t been able to make tdarr work with my gpu so most of my media is probably taking more space than it needs. Any advice would be appreciated!

  • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    1 month ago

    Don’t know which country you live in but $160 for a 14 TB HDD is a good price. It’s been a while since I lived in North America, but from memory this is a good price for US/Canada.

    One general tip for saving space is to get x265/HEVC content, as it tends to be most space efficient on both an absolute and a “quality per GB basis” (some caveats of course, but I digress). That being said you may want to make sure all your clients support x265 (I prefer to simply never have to transcode and have all clients support Xvid/x264/x265 and all major audio formats).

  • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 month ago

    14TB for $160 seems insanely low/good price, even for refurbished?

    Or where do you get prices like that?! (I’m in the EU BTW).

      • Retro_unlimited@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        1/2 to 3/4 of my drives are from server parts deals, only had one of them give me issues and I think the issue was the SATA cable I had. I have several servers.

        They are used drives, but I only paid about $100-125 each. Keep watching their site and things go in and out of stock all the time. I wait until they have a good price.

      • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        Nice site, but the prices are way bigger when you click the link or is it I who doesn’t get how it works?

    • Wispy2891@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      I bought a drive like that from Amazon Germany for that price, found it using diskprices.com. It was “brand new” and indeed the smart reported 0 hours, but it died within a few hours when I sent a dd wipe operation to stress test it.

      Conclusion: it was a scam, the drive was already dead and had thousands of hours of life in a server. They used some low level diag tool to reset the counters and make it look like new instead of having 50k hours of life

      Fun fact: they shipped it in a paper mailer, completely inappropriate for an HDD. Probably in this way they can blame Amazon warehouse “it’s them, they packed it like that!” if someone reports is as DOA. If instead it still works after 50k hours of 24/7 abuse and shipping it across Europe in a paper mailer, then it’s indestructible and will outlast the user.

  • MTK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    Tip, look at second hand sites/fb marketplace (i know 😒) you can find great deals.

    • Ufo_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      Check drive age/hours though, I forgot to and bought a 60K hour drive that failed almost immediately.

  • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    1 month ago

    Switch to Stremio (with Torrentio) and never worry about running out of storage space again. Everything is streamed directly to your TV, no downloading necessary. Browse like it’s Netflix and just pick something then watch it. Plus there’s support for home theater enthusiasts with features like HDR, Dolby Atmos, 4K, etc.

    • Aneb@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      Oh? I’ve never heard of this. I see there git page here and I installed it easy on my android phone and the add-on torrentio. It there a like docker image or can I host this. I used my server to provide streams to friends and family but this seems to all in one solution I could forward them the link and have a set up guide on my domain now.

      • Aneb@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        I think the greatest advantage of this is to probably watch a few episodes of show before committing to downloading it especially long series or quick movies. Does everyone in the world need backups of movies and TV shows? I know seeding is an important factor to passing media along but it also feels like hoarding and I’m not a hoarder. It feels like a fine line to cross