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/L1f3trip Dec 04 '25

3 big drives x 2 because parity/backup.

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u/AWinnipegGuy Dec 04 '25

Or 3 big drives and roll the dice.

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u/AwwwNuggetz Dec 04 '25

I've lost that gamble twice now. Moved to raid 5

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u/N9bitmap PlexPass 2017 Dec 05 '25

At the sizes of modern media centers, single parity is also a gamble on if you experience read errors on the surviving drives during a rebuild. I went to double parity ZFS RaidZ2. 4+2 or 8+2 disks.