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    2 years ago

    What level of quality do you store your content at? 1080p? 4K?

    I want to build my own catalog of Movies also, but I’m afraid of not getting enough Storage for 4K because it costs so much. I mean, sure, I can get 4TB HDDs for 59.99, but how much 4K Content is that?

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      2 years ago

      I’d guesstimate something like 100 movies. 4k Movies can be massive depending on the bitrate, HDR, etc…

      My smaller 4k files are ~20GB and my biggest ones are 87GB(3 hour movie, high bitrate)…

      Seems that “typical” is closer to 40… so 100 movies is probably about right.

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        2 years ago

        100 movies per 4TB? If that’s true, that’s pretty reasonable! Id probably get 4 drives and do 3+1 Parity

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          2 years ago

          That’s my guess… I have majority 1080p content, with a sprinkling of 4k stuff. I’m at 27TB for 6062 movies. 160 of which are 4k at varying bitrates.

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      2 years ago

      I store almost everything but my few favorite movies in 1080p. but I also let friends request content and I have automatic lists setup to add new stuff as it comes out so I try not to keep 4k, plus watching 4k outside of the house can be stressful on the server so 1080p is good for me, I have about 60tb of 1080p shows movies and youtube series