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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?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 😁

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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..

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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.