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Personally anime uses around 30TB for me. For the best quality (mostly 1080p + bluray) of everything released in the last year (~250 shows / movies), but also i

by Frotag 3y ago

Personally anime uses around 30TB for me. For the best quality (mostly 1080p + bluray) of everything released in the last year (~250 shows / movies), but also including older releases for the same franchise (eg past seasons / related spin offs). For western media it'll really depend on how much quality you're willing to forgo (4k? hdr? blu-ray rips?) but 20GB for a 1080p season pack (~10 eps) and 5GB for a movie is pretty normal. And a cursory glance at certain sites suggests 250 seasons and 850 movies were released in 2023, so ~15TB seems like a good estimate for a years worth. Releases for asian stuff should be pretty similar in size, except less hdr / bluray options. Storage wise I just have a raid 1 (zfs) setup with a bunch of 14tb drives (at 8~10usd per TB [1]). I did need to buy a hba doodad to convert a pcie slot to more sata slots though. [1] https://diskprices.com/ https://diskprices.com/

notso411 3y ago
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TacticalCoder 3y ago
> 5GB for a movie is pretty normal. So 200 movies per TB. So 6 000 movies on a 30 TB. I know someone who has tens of thousands of movies and series. He's got 200 TB (with redundancy).
dmw_ng 3y ago
Wouldn't mind knowing total number of hours / audio / video codec / resolutions for that 30TB collection. Immediate thought is ridiculously overspecced codec configuration or signs of an addiction. Are they stored as lossless 10-bit or something?
- numpad0 3y ago
  1920x1080x24bpp@30fps = 187MB/s or 1500Mbps, 11.2GB/min, 670GB/hr. 30TB / 670GB/hr = 44.7hrs raw. Shows and episodes wise, 30TB / 250 shows is 120GB/show, if by show GP meant a season, (120 GB) / (24 * 60 min) = 11.1 Mbps for a standard TV series, or (120 GB) / (12 * 30 min) = 44.4 Mbps for a standard 3-month anime seasons. Most 2K TV standards as well as streaming such as Netflix 4K are at 20-30Mbps bitrates, coming in already encoded in MPEG(-2/-4), so that's likely what GP is hoar-, collecting.
  - Frotag 3y ago
    Sorry I should clarify, the 250 shows + movies estimate comes from number of shows / movies listed on MAL for this season times 4. But since I also auto-download "related" releases for each thing airing (like seasons / movies from previous years), this comes out to ~24000 video files on disk (mp4 / mkv, excluding the million bluray raw segments). This tally is probably inflated by the bluray extras / op / ed files and a tiny bit by dupes (tracker is poorly organized) I'll dump the actual stats in a few minutes but point is the 30TB has a lot more than the year's worth I mentioned ("250 seasons / movies"), because myself and the people I share the library with like to catch up on stuff before watching the newest release. But yeah looks like ~15TB are from bluray remuxes which is definitely overkill (40~100 GiB per season).
- Frotag 3y ago
  Bleh, took like 2 hours to scan every file. Anyways, overall stats are here https://gist.github.com/anon962/26bedc907e1f85123ae92df194de30f8 https://gist.github.com/anon962/26bedc907e1f85123ae92df194de...
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by Frotag 3y ago

notso411 3y ago

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TacticalCoder 3y ago

> 5GB for a movie is pretty normal. So 200 movies per TB. So 6 000 movies on a 30 TB. I know someone who has tens of thousands of movies and series. He's got 200 TB (with redundancy).

dmw_ng 3y ago

Wouldn't mind knowing total number of hours / audio / video codec / resolutions for that 30TB collection. Immediate thought is ridiculously overspecced codec configuration or signs of an addiction. Are they stored as lossless 10-bit or something?

numpad0 3y ago
1920x1080x24bpp@30fps = 187MB/s or 1500Mbps, 11.2GB/min, 670GB/hr. 30TB / 670GB/hr = 44.7hrs raw. Shows and episodes wise, 30TB / 250 shows is 120GB/show, if by show GP meant a season, (120 GB) / (24 * 60 min) = 11.1 Mbps for a standard TV series, or (120 GB) / (12 * 30 min) = 44.4 Mbps for a standard 3-month anime seasons. Most 2K TV standards as well as streaming such as Netflix 4K are at 20-30Mbps bitrates, coming in already encoded in MPEG(-2/-4), so that's likely what GP is hoar-, collecting.
- Frotag 3y ago
  Sorry I should clarify, the 250 shows + movies estimate comes from number of shows / movies listed on MAL for this season times 4. But since I also auto-download "related" releases for each thing airing (like seasons / movies from previous years), this comes out to ~24000 video files on disk (mp4 / mkv, excluding the million bluray raw segments). This tally is probably inflated by the bluray extras / op / ed files and a tiny bit by dupes (tracker is poorly organized) I'll dump the actual stats in a few minutes but point is the 30TB has a lot more than the year's worth I mentioned ("250 seasons / movies"), because myself and the people I share the library with like to catch up on stuff before watching the newest release. But yeah looks like ~15TB are from bluray remuxes which is definitely overkill (40~100 GiB per season).
Frotag 3y ago
Bleh, took like 2 hours to scan every file. Anyways, overall stats are here https://gist.github.com/anon962/26bedc907e1f85123ae92df194de30f8 https://gist.github.com/anon962/26bedc907e1f85123ae92df194de...
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