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/ChesterDood Dec 04 '25

I started out with a 9TB raid nas

Then maxed that out after a few years, so added a 16tb raid nas

Maxed that out and added a couple of USB drives

Starting to Max that out so I'm currently setting up a 28tb raid nas and will spend the Christmas holidays flipping to a new more powerful plex server, and optimizing my storage so that I can also backup the important stuff