What's your storage solution?

Hi ...
let's have a discussion about storage space ..
Do you like to store/collect movies or series ? or you delete them right after watching ?
What do you keep mostly ?
What storage device you get ? How much capacity ?
What's your plans for future data storage ?


Personally , my laptop has 320 GB hard ..
and I got 1 TB external hard drive .. it's about to get full ..I'm planning on buying new one .. maybe 2TB this time
I like to keep some series and movies and definitely a lot of tutorials , books and videos .

What about you?

We all started with some GB hard drive (80GB for me some 15 years ago :regular_smile: ) and have ended up to numerous 2 and 3TB external ones..... :laugh:
You cant' help it, @limfx. If you want to keep your movies, music etc, same time will come for you also, real soon!

I also keep my most important files to two same sized hard drives, as a back up, to avoid any painful loss.

I use to burn movies and series to dvds, but it is certainy tiring and boring, especially if you d/l lots of movies every...day ....!

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Originally Posted by RossoBreitner

I use to burn movies and series to dvds, but it is certainy tiring and boring, especially if you d/l lots of movies every...day ....!

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Back in the day my dad did this as well and I never understood why. We've got a cupboard full of all his CDs/DVDs which he never touches and are pretty much obsolete in this day and age. He's got this filing system to rival a national library but I've never seen him pull out a DVD to watch a movie again haha.

I personally store all my downloaded stuff on a 3TB hard drive which is constantly connected to my laptop to rack up those seed points. It's getting full though so I'll most likely be investing in another one soon and getting a USB hub to have everything running round the clock.

Come to think of it I think we all suffer from some element of hoarding lol.

I built a home media server with 8 x 4 TB Hard drives running Windows 7 and using Flex raid. It runs 24/7 using sonarr for auto tv downloading and plex as a home media server. Epic machine and was cheaper than you might expect. LOVE IT!!

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Originally Posted by beninho

Back in the day my dad did this as well and I never understood why. We've got a cupboard full of all his CDs/DVDs which he never touches and are pretty much obsolete in this day and age. He's got this filing system to rival a national library but I've never seen him pull out a DVD to watch a movie again haha.

I personally store all my downloaded stuff on a 3TB hard drive which is constantly connected to my laptop to rack up those seed points. It's getting full though so I'll most likely be investing in another one soon and getting a USB hub to have everything running round the clock.

Come to think of it I think we all suffer from some element of hoarding lol.

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It is very easy to understand.
Many of people who like movies, especially not the mainstream ones, consider each movie as a unique being, having its own substance, do it deserves a nice and special treatment :)

Like all retail dvds or BDs, it deserves to be burned to disk, having a custom or retail cover etc.
I realise that some of them, like your dad, rarely pull out a DVD to watch a movie again.
May be because every day more movies are added to the collection!
Although I can understand his point, which could be same for me.

At least to me, the point is to have every movie in order, to a certain place, visible (because even seeing a home made dvd case with a movie can be ..pleasure, like seeing and enjoying a collection of vinyl records :laugh: ) and then to have the option to pull out any of them and watch it!

About your 3TB hard drive storage, I am sure you will find out that is is very liittle, especially if you like HD or full dvd movies.
In that case, and since you do not burn dvds to gain hard drive space, you will find out ....really soon :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

I use DVD-R for writing movies/tvseries and i got nowdays like 15-20 TB HDD .

I currently have stop collecting anything expect anime + documents which i am writing them in DVD-R which is safer than my damn HDD :P

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Originally Posted by Simoss

I built a home media server with 8 x 4 TB Hard drives running Windows 7 and using Flex raid. It runs 24/7 using sonarr for auto tv downloading and plex as a home media server. Epic machine and was cheaper than you might expect. LOVE IT!!

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8 x4 TB ?
this is amazing..how much did that cost you ?
and how to build it ?

The 8 hard drives cost just north of a thousand dollars. It is a pretty standard motherboard, doesn't need to be super high end, and I5 cpu. Google flex raid and plex is the best media server in my opinion.

@Simoss

what is ur PLex client? samsung tv'?roku?

I use roku's on my tv, web app on my laptop while traveling and app on iPad.

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Originally Posted by beninho

Back in the day my dad did this as well and I never understood why. We've got a cupboard full of all his CDs/DVDs which he never touches and are pretty much obsolete in this day and age. He's got this filing system to rival a national library but I've never seen him pull out a DVD to watch a movie again haha.

I personally store all my downloaded stuff on a 3TB hard drive which is constantly connected to my laptop to rack up those seed points. It's getting full though so I'll most likely be investing in another one soon and getting a USB hub to have everything running round the clock.

Come to think of it I think we all suffer from some element of hoarding lol.

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I used to copy on DVD as well, but that costly, takes time and indeed you never come back to it or rarely and it's harder to find what you want when you get a big collection compare to a HDD.

I do like to keep every series and films. It just stored on a simple HDD, but since I travel with them a lot, so far they never last, and everything is lost, including photos and documents. The last one is just few months old.

@Simoss

i have dell desktop i5 , 4gb ram and 320 gb hard drive, windows 8. plex client is Samsung tv. i was having buffering issue on samsung tv. so i was trying to troubleshot the issue. i installed linux on desktop same issue, tried ethernet powerline switch same issue. everytime i reinstall the OS. i have to copy and paste my all movies. thts lot of work. so i was thinking getting 2tb external hard drive and use that for media storage. and set library path in plex media server - stream from external hard drive.

do u think it will work?as external hard drive will have slow read and write speed as compare to internal hd.

Good Morning hellraiser,

First some background and help with the plex. Are you sure you have buffering issues? If you do you can adjust that in your plex settings. My guess is that it is more likely you are having encode/decode issues especially if you had your computer hard wired to the tv. Plex will certainly have no issues running data off an external hard drive. the read write times between internal and external probably aren't that significant and it will buffer what it needs anyway. Personally, I would have the dell running windows 8, with the 2 tb external. That should work more than fine. So, get that set up, and then we can work on your buffering settings next, give me a shout when you are ready for the next step. What format is your media in? There are certainly formats that are better than others for plex and will have to keep it from encoding.

@Simoss

dell desktop motherboard have two sata slot. one used for hard drive and another for dvdrom. i was thinking that i hardly use dvdrom so i can remove dvdrom and install 120gbssd and on other sata slot i can install 2tb HD.

or

do u have portable or non portable external hard drive?

Two SATA slots is plenty. How many USB ports? 120 GB SSD might be a tad small for Windows 8, but it should work for a while, personally, I would double that and in truth, SSD isn't really required if you are only using it for media. DVD ROM's are certainly overrated these days. I would also use a non portable HD so it has good power from something other than the computer, but either would work.

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Originally Posted by RossoBreitner

It is very easy to understand.
Many of people who like movies, especially not the mainstream ones, consider each movie as a unique being, having its own substance, do it deserves a nice and special treatment :)

Like all retail dvds or BDs, it deserves to be burned to disk, having a custom or retail cover etc.
I realise that some of them, like your dad, rarely pull out a DVD to watch a movie again.
May be because every day more movies are added to the collection!
Although I can understand his point, which could be same for me.

At least to me, the point is to have every movie in order, to a certain place, visible (because even seeing a home made dvd case with a movie can be ..pleasure, like seeing and enjoying a collection of vinyl records :laugh: ) and then to have the option to pull out any of them and watch it!

About your 3TB hard drive storage, I am sure you will find out that is is very liittle, especially if you like HD or full dvd movies.
In that case, and since you do not burn dvds to gain hard drive space, you will find out ....really soon :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

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I just got my first HD tracker so I'm starting to understand what you mean haha!

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Originally Posted by hellraiser15

i have dell desktop i5 , 4gb ram and 320 gb hard drive, windows 8. plex client is Samsung tv. i was having buffering issue on samsung tv. so i was trying to troubleshot the issue. i installed linux on desktop same issue, tried ethernet powerline switch same issue. everytime i reinstall the OS. i have to copy and paste my all movies. thts lot of work. so i was thinking getting 2tb external hard drive and use that for media storage. and set library path in plex media server - stream from external hard drive.

do u think it will work?as external hard drive will have slow read and write speed as compare to internal hd.

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I've been having buffering issues as well while streaming from a seedbox to my Samsung TV. I dont know if our issues are related to the TV or our settings are coincidentally the same. In any case I gave up cause it was just unbearable.

@beninho

what version of plex media server you have. if you have latest version then that is the issue. you need to downgrade to 9.11.16 PMS version.

@Simoss

6 usb port.

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@limfx You bump for what!:hmmmm:



You can bump only your threads,be more careful bro!


Regards!

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yes sorry guys .. this was by mistake ..

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Originally Posted by hellraiser15

what version of plex media server you have. if you have latest version then that is the issue. you need to downgrade to 9.11.16 PMS version.

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I'll have to check but I'm pretty sure I've got the latest version. I'll downgrade and if that solves my problems then you sir are a godsend!

@beninho

did you downgrade your PMS?did that work??

No I worked out I was already running 9.11.16 :(

@beninho

do u have plex version 2.001 on samsung tv?if yes upgrade your PMS to 9.11.17.

I'm running 2.002, do I still need to upgrade?

Also, do you have the issue of stuff you deleted from your servers still staying in your playlists on plex?

Edit: Don't worry I worked out why.

@beninho
yes upgrade to 09.11.17

I also used to burn everything on DVDs until last year, at the peak some 150 DVDs per month and everything at the lowest speed, but that was really time consuming so I transferred everything to 3 external HDDs and continued to buy 3TB externals for storage, now in 1 hour I transfer the same amount of data it took me 2 days to burn to DVDs. I'm using one 3TB internal HDD dedicated to torrenting and for now 8x 3TB externals for storage. I archive everything I even remotely like from games, HD movies and series, anime, books and comics, majority of those I will probably never use, my prime motivation is I guess that it's hard to predict what would I like to use in the future and 10 years from now majority of those will only be dead torrents so archiving and hoarding make sense to me :)

I save the best encodes on a 6TB internal hdd which is placed in my mediaplayer, i stick with almost exclusively MKVs for movies.

Cheap Seagate HDs.

I only store the most movies I liked , not all .
For storage , 1 x 2TB external drive is enough.
In the future , I thing getting more external drives is the best solution atm.