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!

  • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    6 days 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
        4·
        5 days 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.

    • Wispy2891@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 days 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.

      • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        5 days 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?

  • JASN_DE@feddit.orgEnglish
    14·
    6 days ago

    Do you have room for a HDD? Power budget, monetary budget, SATA ports?

    The good thing is that a mechanical HDD is still loads faster than needed for serving media, unless you’re hitting massive user numbers, so there’s usually no need to put media on expensive SSDs.

    • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      I was gonna say, refurbished hdds work perfectly for this. Now, I am kind of reaching that point where a NAS with multiple 20tb hdds is in order but generally you can get pretty far with hdds.

    • Joelk111@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

      Maybe I’m missing something, but I’m not sure what this post has to do with memory, they’re asking about storage.

  • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    6 days 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·
      6 days 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·
        5 days 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

  • anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    4·
    6 days ago

    Separating your services from your storage makes things a lot easier in my opinion.
    Setup one machine as a NAS and have that manage your (preferably redundant and backuped if storing personal photos or other unique data) storage, then share it to the rest of your selfhosting over nfs and smb.
    You could either go for a prebuilt NAS like Ugreen NASync DXP2800 or build your own m-itx with a Jonsbo N2 case and an N100 motherboard or whatever you’re comfortable with.

    Your jellyfin server then accesses the media libraries with a simple mount (/mnt/media). Same with your tdarr server and tdarr nodes.
    It’s much easier to experiment and reinstall services when you have your storage separated from them.

    I can’t buy a 14tb hdd for that price here in Sweden, but I have no idea about your local prices. Is it new or refurb?

    • dogs0n@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      Sounds nice to have it separate, but it’s not hard to reinstall services or even your whole os (as long as you are partitioned correctly) while your data is on the same machine/disk.

      Two machines does sound overkill for Jellyfin (and 99.99% of self hosters).

      • anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        Nothing is hard when you know what you’re doing. :)
        Being able to completely wipe your compute machine and not worry is nice and imo easier.

        For only Jellyfin, then I agree - if that is where it stops you could run it all on an N100 integrated motherboard and have a lean sleek system that hosts your files and your streaming server. But when your services starts being too much for the N100 then it’s nice to separate it a bit and for me it feels natural to split it between compute/storage.

        • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
          4·
          6 days ago

          Yes, I have a single machine where most of my storage is. I host my jellyfin server there, as well as all the home directories for all the users of my systems. Login to any system in the house and you always have the same desktop and data. If I want to replace a system, reinstall or distro hop. It’s just a few lines to copy into fstab and a few apps/flatpaks to download at most.

    • Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      Out of curiosity, do yoy know how Jellyfin handles network failures with mounted network drives?

      I had a navidrome server where once my network machine failed to start properly, the entire database was deleted because it looked to the server like I deleted all of my files. I luckily had my favorites cached on my phone client and was able to restore most of my playlists from there but it was still an incredibly annoying thing to go through. I have since turned off automatic scanning of files for that service since that seemed like the only way to prevent this happening again