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Even if for some reason you don't re-encode, 18+ TB disks are now available. This means you can fit nearly 300 films' worth on a single drive like this, more if
by selfhoster11 4y ago
Even if for some reason you don't re-encode, 18+ TB disks are now available. This means you can fit nearly 300 films' worth on a single drive like this, more if you buy multiple. I don't think it's such a bad idea to run a 4-drive cluster out of a single Raspberry Pi, with all the drives connected over USB.
You don't even need backups for this, really. If you own the discs and lose the digital version, just copy it on the disc again. If you acquired it via other means, then... it should be possible to replace most such data. Even if you do choose to make backups, then that doubles your cost per terabyte at most.
Storage is really cheap, assuming you're fine with something that isn't a fancy ZFS/RAID array.
- withinboredom 4y agoI’m 90% sure an rpi can’t handle the Bitrate needed to watch a 4K video.
- RealStickman_ 4y agoYou can't just throw files on there. You should make sure the clients you're connecting support the codecs and formats natively and at that point the pi is basically acting as a NAS. It should play 4k fine like that if it has the bandwidth necessary.
- withinboredom 4y agoYeah, that’s what I’m saying. I don’t think the pi itself has the internal bandwidth necessary.
- deadbunny 4y agoThe rPI moved the NIC off the USB bus so is actuy1gbps which is plenty for even 4k and it has hardware x264/x265 so should playback fine.
- fomine3 4y agoAlso most 4K videos on internet (except your recorded HQ file by camera or latest phone) even below 100Mbps so it's fine. Even in UHD Blu-ray, it's 128Mbps max.