Jellyfin is the way. Streaming only made sense when prices were low and all the content was basically in one place.

I'll just keep growing my personal library.

Yea, fucking AI making it too expensive to be a data hoarder. I have to keep making hard decisions on which media to delete.

Disk space (cost) is a genuine problem nowadays

should be some cheap storage hitting the second hand market, when this AI bubble pops

Same! I actually still have a decent amount of free space though, but my library is still growing.

I'm even using jellyfin in the car with android auto to listen to music. Recently bought a external blu-ray drive so I can rip all my old CD's and DVD's so at least some of my data is legit :D

I had to resort to used SAS drives on my server.

You can get them pretty cheap, but you absolutely have to run a full smart test and check the error correction log before using.

Plus they usually come with 5 years power on time minimum, so you'd only want to run them in any RAID/ZRAID combo that has redundancy.

Couple of people here mentioned re-encoding, but that also harms the seed count if you're using BitTorrent as the exchange medium.

Part of the issue is that Bluray remux rips are usually in H.265 at 10 bit with Dolby Vision which pushes 4K file size into the 70-100Gb range.

That's fine for a single movie on a bluray disk, but its atrocious for saving multiple onto a drive or NAS.

But then most encodes still almost all use H.265 or H.264 which still gives you a fat 30Gb file for 4K.

I'm pretty sure AV1 solves this issue because it has much better compression compared to H.265, especially for higher pixel content, but no Blurays are using AV1 because there's no reduced cost in forcing a change in consumer hardware.

Plus I think AV1 technically doesn't support Dolby Vision in proper yet.

Pinchflat right into the jellyfin server. Tada!