2024-04-22, 02:20 PM
(This post was last modified: 2024-04-22, 02:23 PM by FactoriedMyAuth. Edited 1 time in total.)
Howdy, Shwalamazula here. I am really new to this. The most I ever used for media hosting was just a folder with a bunch of old .avi files, using MetaX to put metadata in the files so they would show up as fancy titles on network shares. I stopped accessing those files years ago, because they were low quality, took too much work to get them to stream to the TV, and streaming services filled the gap.
Up until about a year ago, I had a handful of 4ks and Blu-Rays. I was leaning toward starting a physical media library because of Disney. Paramount kicked me into gear when they dropped Star Trek: Prodigy (Sony didn't help with their recent dropping of purchased titles either). My buddy outgrew his DS220+ and asked me if I wanted it, since he knew I was building my own library. That kicked off a new hyper-fixation hobby and now I am here. I read up on the most popular media-hosting solutions and this seemed like a good fit for me.
I started with the DS220+ with 2x 8TB drives in SHA (so 8TB with full drive redundancy). I had Jellyfin hosted from the 220+ in a container. That worked well, since it had QuickSync. I quickly outgrew that (my Trek files are nearly 4TB in total), so I upgraded the drives to 20TB. That lasted me 3 months.
Now I am running a DS1522+ with 3x 20TB (18TB usable) drives in SHA (35TB usable with 1 disk failure protection). Because the chipset on the 1522+ doesn't have hardware acceleration, the NAS is not hosting anymore. I have my main computer temporarily hosting with the Windows app (just for simplicity). I picked up a Beelink EQ12 (Intel N100) to be the main host. I am still trying to figure out the best way to set that up and will be crawling thru the self-host pages to see what others have done. I am using Jellyfin for local hosting of movies and tv shows. I have my flack collection in there as well (just to see how it handles audio). I tried adding my e-books too, but that was a bit clunky and only an experiment.
So, yeah ... super fun journey so far.
Up until about a year ago, I had a handful of 4ks and Blu-Rays. I was leaning toward starting a physical media library because of Disney. Paramount kicked me into gear when they dropped Star Trek: Prodigy (Sony didn't help with their recent dropping of purchased titles either). My buddy outgrew his DS220+ and asked me if I wanted it, since he knew I was building my own library. That kicked off a new hyper-fixation hobby and now I am here. I read up on the most popular media-hosting solutions and this seemed like a good fit for me.
I started with the DS220+ with 2x 8TB drives in SHA (so 8TB with full drive redundancy). I had Jellyfin hosted from the 220+ in a container. That worked well, since it had QuickSync. I quickly outgrew that (my Trek files are nearly 4TB in total), so I upgraded the drives to 20TB. That lasted me 3 months.
Now I am running a DS1522+ with 3x 20TB (18TB usable) drives in SHA (35TB usable with 1 disk failure protection). Because the chipset on the 1522+ doesn't have hardware acceleration, the NAS is not hosting anymore. I have my main computer temporarily hosting with the Windows app (just for simplicity). I picked up a Beelink EQ12 (Intel N100) to be the main host. I am still trying to figure out the best way to set that up and will be crawling thru the self-host pages to see what others have done. I am using Jellyfin for local hosting of movies and tv shows. I have my flack collection in there as well (just to see how it handles audio). I tried adding my e-books too, but that was a bit clunky and only an experiment.
So, yeah ... super fun journey so far.