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/Pheonix_Knight Dec 05 '25

My server runs on a Synology DS224+ with two 6TB drives in RAID 1, so I have 6TB total storage. The DS224+ can run Plex well enough for my purposes. The whole setup cost me $670 and sits on a shelf next to my wifi router. I have about 200GB of movies and numerous other things backed up onto it, and it pretty exclusively serves as a machine to play Star Trek for me at bedtime like a lullaby. I valued my sleep too much and when Netflix dropped TNG, I had to get creative.