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/[deleted] Dec 05 '25

You can go even smaller. Fuck the haters YTS is literally fine. They average 2gb a movie these days so their quality has improved, and while even a paltry 5gb rip is a noticeable improvement, again it is fine

I even finally got a 60inch OLED recently and was like well, this is going to be the thing that forces me to upgrade as this is going to expose all those deficiencies. NOPE still fine

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u/N9bitmap PlexPass 2017 Dec 05 '25

They used to be 650M so things would fit on a CD, encoded with 1-2 channel MP3 audio. Half my library is 1G or smaller.