How big is YOUR collection?

Nice try FBI 😎

You can say size, just say it's all old public domain stuff like mine is.
- I converted all my DVD's so I can watch them more easily.
Came here to say the same thing.
Ah shit we're uncovered 🤦

Thats about a few days worth of downloads for me. Over 150tb raw 80 tb used

Damn...got a rack server full of drives?
- Nowadays thats less than 10 drives. I literally just ordered 10 20 tb drives to fill my second nas.
  I have two synolygy 1019+ with ds 517 expansion units. That 10 drives for each set. Technically i could set that up to have about 400 tb usable.
  I buy factory recertified drives for about 200 ea. with a couple spares.yea its a chunk of change but not too crazy.
  I have multiple friends with more than a pb.

4451 movies

398 series / 36130 episodes

Taking up 25.48tb after conversion to HEVC compressing it ~40%

Every series is monitored for new episodes which download automatically; and there's a dozen or so public IMDB lists being monitored for new movies from studios/categories I like. Anything added to the lists gets downloaded automatically.

Then there's Ombi gathering media requests from my friends/family to be passed to sonarr/radarr and downloaded.

At this point, the library continuously grows on its own, and I have to do little more than just tell it what I want to watch.

What's your process for recoding? I'm nearing 120tb used space and would like to re-encode some of the stuff my *arr stack grabbed before I got my profiles tuned in.
- https://home.tdarr.io/
  I used to use the built in convert options in Emby server, but recently switched to Tdarr to manage all my conversions. It's got far more control/configurablity to encode your files exactly how you'd like.
  It can also 'health check' files by transcoding them, but not saving the output; checking for errors during that process to ensure the file can actually be played through successfully. With 41k+ files to manage, that made it much easier to find and replace the dozen or so broken files I had, before I found them by trying to play them.
  Fore warning; this is a long and intensive process. Converting my entire library to HEVC using an RTX 2080 took me over 2 months non-stop. (not including health checks)
- Why not let *arrr find good HEVC releases by searching again? Just set remux to be considered as lower quality as the other releases, and *arr will upgrade the files by replacing remux with non-remux files. Did that, got many TiB back 😁
- What's your electricity bill like? That's 0.12 pb. Monstrous in my opinion.
  Anti Commercial-AI license
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- That's just the statistics pluggin on Emby server.

Are you remux fan? 😂

Big, but orders of magnitude smaller than what all the Steam games I've bought at sales and never found the time to play would need if I installed them all at the same time.

“Piracy” really is a service problem.

(Fuck, I've got Amazon Prime for the free deliveries — it comes bundled around these parts and is surprisingly cheap — and I still torrent Amazon series because it's more convenient and gives me better quality...)

Currently 40.2 TB, around 1800 movies, 430 TV shows and 4600 albums.

Nice.

Just to be clear: if Netflix would have high quality versions of ALL movies and series and now the bullshit it's turning into, I would never Pirate. Too much trouble, too much work, too expensive. Netflix would be could be easy but instead it's getting shittier by the minute.

Don't get me started on Amazon or disney

I aspire to have enough storage to do that someday.

These are some low bitrate movies. Mine is probably at least 10x that size but nowhere close 10x the content.

Yes, I have little bandwidth so I always download low bitrate ones.

Much, much larger.

About 14TB. Which reminds me, gonna need a new drive to drop in the NAS soon.

7 inches

Hard drive or floppy?

At least 0 bytes

Mine is between 0 and 1 petabytes

Tree fiddy.

Over 2500 movies and over 200 series. There is a lot of todo maintenance (adding subtitles, converting some movies that are still in blueray or dvd iso) and in total some 100TB. A lot of it is lower quality, working on improving that

Edit: it's a huge amount of work and money and I'm only doing it as a sort of hobby since netix turned to shit. Give me one provider that can show me everything from every country, whenever I want, on whatever devit I want, no gro blocking, no ad bullshit, and I'd happily pay twice, three times the amount I do now. But here we are, and here is my collection because half the shit I have can't be watched anywhere else. Fuck the enshitification

Let me worship you

Round 30TB between music/tv/film/stand-up/books/comics/applications.

Around 16 TiB and I keep 3 copies of everything so 48 TiB used of around 65TiB. I encoded all my TV shows and most of my movies with AV1 and keep most of my files compressed, which saves a bunch of space so hopefully I won't need more drives any time soon

It's pretty tiny, but as long as you're happy that's the main thing. My colleague at work is a sysadmin by thread so built a server with all the bells and whistles, then put it online and opened it to some friends and family. I forget the size but we're talking somewhere near 100 Tb easy. I find it a bit excessive, if you ask me :P

I have no collection whatsoever. Everything that I watched gets deleted from the seedbox. A maximum of 900GB are stored on there at any given time. It’s cheap and no hassle to maintain.

I don't have one lol

About 12 tb. 3 12 tb hdds, raid 5. Run arr suite, qbittorrent, jellyfin, and some non piracy related things. I should get a proper backup, but money.

1,200 movies
200 shows
Smattering of books and a few GBs of music
Oh and every game for every console older than the PS2

Originally across multiple 4tb external drives but been mostly pushed to one nas 8tb drive in my case.

As big as whatever I'm consuming hasn't been consumed yet or reached 3.0 ratio.

Rougly 3TB of TV shows (720p) and films (1080p, x265 at around 4mbps that I ripped myself including the subs and multiple language tracks), as well as about 500GB of music (FLAC) most of it from my physical library.

About 1,400 movies: 6.7TB
About 15,100 episodes: 10.9TB

Spread across a couple of NASes, each with 4 x 4TB drives in RAID5.

115,000 songs. Mostly FLAC. Comes out to 3.5TB

another 18tb of video on the NAS

Going on 6Tb of movies and tv

Just over a terabyte spread over two drives not including whatever I put in my backup.

7 TiB and growing

1,2Tb stored on M-Discs

Mostly GoPro videos , memes and books

765 movies (~4.5 TB)

161 tv series (~7.2 TB)

About a year ago 6TB storage was no longer cutting it since I was constantly having to hunt for media to delete or downgrade quality in order to make more room. I bought five 14TB drives and put them in a big zfs pool so I don't have to do that anymore.

About 8.5TB of tv shows and movies.

About 9tb. 100 days worth of music, 300 or so shows and over 1000 movies. Just recently started to get /convert everything to 1080p.

7 TB in music, tv and movies
Dunno how much is what.
Recently uograded from a single 7TB HDD to a 4x16TB NAS in RaidZ2

I have about 24TB, lots of stuff backed up over many years, and not all of it pirated. In making backups over such a long period of time, I've actually managed to make redundant backups, so a recent project of mine is to just go to my NAS and organize, consolidate, and otherwise delete things I don't actually wish to keep. I've saved a couple TBs and I hope to free up a few more TBs.

I don't keep any TV series after I watch them, unless someone else with access to my Jellyfin wants to watch too. So my collection is relatively small at a few terabytes.

Lmao.

Mine is small, since I have a shit ton of physical media going back into the eighties

So, only about 3 tb, most of which is music in lossless formats. But, I also purge video that I don't watch at least yearly, so it could be bigger.

I have a shit ton of physical media going back into the eighties
If you care about it, you should make sure that you still have it, and not just useless plastic, and make backup copies (and / or upload it)... magnetic tapes and discs degrade quite fast, and even CDs and DVDs have a limited lifespan... vinyls will probably be fine, though if treated properly.
- I watch things fairly often, and so far, I haven't lost anything that was oop before I could make a copy (which is why I go through them, even if it's just background noise while I do other things). That's the flow chart; pick the next one, check to see if it's still available, if it isn't either rip it or download it, then watch to verify the physical.
  But, thank you very much for looking out :) That's a genuinely cool thing to do

40GiB of game ROMs of all sorts. A ton of snes/megadrive oldies, some PS1 stuff.

Now I want to expand to Wii and Gamecube...

it is not too much. do you have some nostalgia about these times or prefer some old consoles rather than the newer ones?
- I think old school gaming in general was simpler and more enjoyable/to the point. I have most nostalgia for PS1 stuff, but I really like a bit of everything

well this is my current music library all together in a WinAMP Playlist

TV folder is 6.66tb, Movie folder is 1.84tb, Music is 600gb

6 shows (131 episodes) at 240 GiB
2 movies at 80 GiB

42TiB (I managed to get about 5TiB back by defining remux to be lower quality as "normal" releases in the arr* apps 😎) Now I can finally add more media

download movie -> watch movie -> seed it for a while, at least some days -> delete

I have like 10 movies saved for archival, because it was hard to find them

3TB most of it from Kemono or anime piracy.

I have an entire series of Breaking Bad and that alone is almost 100GB and 320GB+ of anime also another 200GB if you count games all store in an external 1TB hard drive and that's puny compared to other people collection I saw online

With just shows in general, I have a fair amount. Don't know the exact amount of cartoons, but I got a 1TB external drive almost full of them, a single live actions show from the 90s, a single live action movie, a few animated films, and a whole comic set. As for games, I don't count by size, nor do I know how many since they're not stored on a drive. I specifically got a 2TB external drive (both drives Seagate) for if I ever find more shows/whatever I wanna collect, but I have yet to find something I desperately want.

That, and I still need to use it to back up files so I can switch operating systems on my desktop.

Edit:

No idea how much music I've downloaded from yt using things like NewPipe, but I got a good amount. I'd assume this counts as piracy too, since I'm certain the people in charge of the music industry don't like you being able to do that.

I do the same. I have 500GiB storage for my Pi4, which I use for torrenting and Kodi. I delete stuff if I watched it and it reaches 2:1 seed ratio, or after a couple of months. So in a way I don't really have a collection.

6TiB, backed up to the cloud. So 12TiB in total

Mostly games. Maybe 30 ish GB, probably an understatement but I don't have that much storage

Not big, but I have a few degenerate hoarding friends I mooch off of

.5TB but I'm still a student so I'm pretty happy about it

12TB or so

Two 8TB drives. One has 1272 movies at 7.14TB and the other 252 shows/15571 episodes at 7.11TB

Like 50GB of music, probably about 30gb of shows. though I only started downloading shows very recently, like earlier this year.

Like 50GB of music
Rookie numbers. I got 50GB of fonts

About 8GiB thumb drive. I don't hang on to much

12tb on the fileserver (Enigma)

Big Finish and music live on my main rig.

I know somebody that just recently had to buy another drive for their 32TB unraid media server that runs in a DIY clean box in the basement. Is that small or large? I can't imagine myself doing that much crime.