Im slowly wrapping my head around the jellyfish thing …very slowly. But lets not pretend the server space isnt the price issue. I couod spend 5 years of netflix subs to get to a decent raid protected level.
If you want to take on archiving a huge library of media, more power to you. But that isn’t a requirement. Many people use streaming downloads so that local storage is basically not required. Others download and set up services/plugins to delete episodes after they have been watched to ease storage requirements. Even if you want to keep all media, Raid is certainly a luxury, not necessity. Losing all of the media from a drive just means needing to download it all again.
And all of this is completely out of the argument of “feature parity” with Netflix. They drop shows and movies from their services all the time.
Im slowly wrapping my head around the jellyfish thing …very slowly. But lets not pretend the server space isnt the price issue. I couod spend 5 years of netflix subs to get to a decent raid protected level.
If you want to take on archiving a huge library of media, more power to you. But that isn’t a requirement. Many people use streaming downloads so that local storage is basically not required. Others download and set up services/plugins to delete episodes after they have been watched to ease storage requirements. Even if you want to keep all media, Raid is certainly a luxury, not necessity. Losing all of the media from a drive just means needing to download it all again.
And all of this is completely out of the argument of “feature parity” with Netflix. They drop shows and movies from their services all the time.
Self-hosting media can pretty much be as cheap or as expensive as you want.
My friend plugs an external drive into an Nvidia shield and it works fine.
An old laptop from eBay works well too, with the additional benefit of essentially having a built-in UPS.
You don’t have to have a crazy setup.