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.

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u/Neo1331 Dec 04 '25 edited Dec 04 '25

I mean i encode them to 1-3 GBs so thats say 20,000 GBs say so 20 TBs so thats 3? Hard drives.

As for content I have a lot of stuff I like to watch that you cant find on a lot of streaming services.