r/SipsTea • u/untitledprp4 • 11d ago

SMH Streaming was a mistake

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u/neighborlyhorse 11d ago edited 11d ago

Used to be good advice, but have you seen HDD prices? I just paid 310$ for a second hand 12TB HDD and that was a steal. Just last year I got a 22TB HDD brand new for cheaper than that.

Any decent jellyfin server needs minimum 8TB storage and that will feel very limiting, and 8TB HDDS are going for like 300+ dollars if you buy new.

I still do my own selfhosted jellyfin but its not a cheap little thing you can do anymore, its a real investment of serious money.

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u/gogurteaterpro 11d ago

8TB?? Wow I didn't realize multimedia took up so much space

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u/PixelEmpire7 11d ago

I have a very decent library of movies and music on a 4tb drive. I have all my fav movies on it and anything I download new I just remove once I’ve watched unless I intend to watch again at some point (which isn’t often). As long as you’re not downloading crazy large 4k movies it’s plenty i’m quite happy with compressed 1080ps