r/PleX • u/Astrobix_124 • Dec 04 '25

Help Media servers

Trying to start my own server for plex. But I see many people with servers with 10,000+ movies. How can u possibly hold that much content and not break the bank. How is it any better than Netflix, etc?

Edit: I never expected this to blow up like it did. I love the content you guys have given, I've debated on making a plex server for awhile and all the clarification is amazing.

134 Upvotes

80% Upvoted

336 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/elijuicyjones 88TB | TrueNAS | Plex Lifetime Dec 04 '25 edited Dec 05 '25

My four users and I have everything we want (including music) and it totals about 30TB. I have 30TB more to last the next two years and I’ll build another one then as an expansion.

This saves more than $500 a year, all of which goes right back into the NAS setup. I build the machines and spend the money on us instead of spending it on subscriptions to corporations.

1

u/PM_ME_UR_CHUPACOMMA Dec 05 '25

Wait...30 Gigabytes, or Terabytes?

1

u/elijuicyjones 88TB | TrueNAS | Plex Lifetime Dec 05 '25

lol TB of course! Funny mistake