Re:Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through stream...
by scruple on Thursday May 15, 2025 @12:08PM
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Same here. I have a 5TB external that I use for TV shows and movies and run Jellyfin off of my main desktop. Obviously we're not massive consumers and don't need a huge array of tens or hundreds of TBs... What's nice about it is when we're going on vacation or whatever, the external fits into a sling bag with my iPad Pro and it's all highly portable without the networking headache.
This isn't as true as it used to be. My current Jellyfin server is an old laptop with a 5TB USB hard drive dangling off of it. Syncthing is used to sync the media to another system in my house because I don't really want to rip it all again if something fails.
If you proactively torrent "everything I may conceivably ever want to watch" or are glued to media 12 hours a day but still want it all to be new, then 5TB will go quickly, but 5TB can go quite a ways for people who don't match those conditions.
While a NAS won't hurt anything, the days when you needed one to do anything useful at all are gone. Just like I just slam my entire MP3 collection on to my phone's SD card now... I don't need any sort of windowing setup, or network access, or anything fancy anymore. Not only does it fit, nowadays it's only a fraction of the space anyhow.