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Bro win 10 computers are essentially free thanks to microsoft's windows 11 requirements and any of them can keep up with transcoding. Add onto that any second hand sata drives and a sata controller than handles multiple parity drives for raid 5 and you've got a solution that is under the yearly subscription fee of ad-free netflix and a fun weekend project.
Too bad that high capacity HDDs and SSDs went through the roof.
Not like you can have a big library with 5x 2TB HDDs if you arent willing to sacrifice quality/bitrate. Simply not feasible.
Where? I am not seeing any computers worth grabbing, even though I keep hearing people are dumping win 10 computers everywhere.
They are going to salvage... We (the MSP I work at) constantly throw out older systems. Too bad they have SSDs with data of potential clients and thus need to be destroyed according to GDPR...
I have seen a few pallet auctions (lots of 100 or more) but they are not going cheap.
This too :(
Can you guide my grandma to help her set it up? I'll give you her number.
Edit: Just want to say I appreciate the info still
not the issue, storage price is
stremio/nuvio + torbox since yall keep mentioning not storing anything longterm and deleting as you go
Hence my solution. You can get 2-4 TB drives for around $30 on ebay. Get a flexible RAID controller that can handle multi-parity Raid 50, ideally a second hand raid card. We're at a total of $230 in at this point, assuming you have a windows 10 desktop lying around.
This is not a high data speed situation. If you have 6 or more drives you can dedicate two to parity and now you will never have data loss despite buying second hand drives. Effective storage capacity will be 16TB, which is more than enough to store 100 full series and a few thousand movies at 1080p or lower, and raid 50 gives a speed boost above what your controller will likely be able to handle, and way above what is needed for even a quite large multi-user media server.
Data storage is still incredibly cheap. You're just confusing your needs and your wants.