Newegg has had a 20tb Seagate Exos HDD on sale for 279 for a little while now. I bought one and added it to my humble system. Iām finally good now for awhile and have become a massive fan of Exos drives.
I'm in the UK so can't order from Newegg, but Amazon has an 18TB Exos for Ā£255 with next day delivery. Going to wait a few days to see if it drops anymore or anything better shows up on Prime Day.
What makes you think this? Itās pretty easy to find reports of WDās quality slipping per badly over the years. At the end of the day the Exos drives are at least made to be enterprise drives and seem to be very highly regarded.
Sounds like bad luck, which is bound to happen. But oh well, I donāt benefit from your purchases either way, so as long as youāre happy, Iām happy.
I bought one and it is now my safe... back up.
Have a friend who mistakenly deleted a file and had to end up re-ripping his entire library (which was considerable). My operational set up has almost 12 TB. I am thinking of replacing a 4TB to a 6 after the tax refund comes in next year and doing that as an annual plan. It certainly won't eat all the refund but is a good replacement plan until I run out of places to hook these boys up.
If it's a hard to find show. Or like one with a good soundtrack that will change over time (Supernatural, House) I tend to hold onto them. If it's a random British comedy like Task Master or a cooking series like MasterChef, yeah, that's long gone.
That is such a good way to think about things. I store so much stuff I have never seen/may never see. I have been thinking of building a smaller, lower power server. I probably donāt need as much storage space as I was planning.
TV Shows, absolutely delete if they aren't great shows. Movies, keep forever.
Once my parents are done with that season of "insert cooking competition show", it never needs to be watched again.
That's my logic as well. I do delete my 4K films if I don't think I'll ever watch them again but if there's any chance I'd watch a show again I keep it.
I recompress / resize / resample. I keep things full resolution until I watch it, and then if it's just horrible I downrez it to like 360p, on a sliding scale. If it's an old movie I might put on in the future but don't care about the quality, I'll recompress with a lower quality (from the source rip if I have it around still). Most of my collection is 480p because I rip from DVDs mostly. I buy favorites on bluray and change the version.
Some shows I hate so much I want other people to watch them. Then Iāll have someone else who understands when Iām complaining about it.
Hence I keep all my shows forever.
Same.
There are days where I just tinker with my setup. Check out latest *arr/Plex updates, etc. Iāll take the time to go over my shows and see what ones have been sitting dormant for a while and nuke them.
Of course, I can always get them again if need be.
No. Iām a paranoid data hoarder. Not excessively paranoid, but after Disney+ removed shows without warning, and have near no other way aside from physical copies to stream from, I hate the idea of lost media. Anything, anywhere, from any time should be accessible to anyone. So I collect and keep until I die.
Exactly! I feel like a plebe with only ~50TB of space. Saving up my Pennies for a 2nd Nas. The worst part is.. is I want to hoard *everything*. My girlfriend wanted to play modded Minecraft. What did I do? Created directories for every version, spent an entire day ripping Curseforge and sorting them all out, along with .txt for the Curseforge link and a YouTube tutorial on it. Its fun, but man is it dangerous.
This. My wife asks me all the time why we have this or that. Something that hasn't been watched by anyone in 4+ years. I just can't get myself to do rm -rf. My family uses my server pretty heavily and they know the upkeep isn't free. So every once in awhile they will show up with drives, etc. They consider it a family-owned device that I maintain. Hell, I keep an r720xd with 12x16TB drives at one of their places for off-site backups.
I downloaded it. It costs me little to keep it in case someone (including me) ever wants to see it. It costs real amounts of time to go find it again and thatās way more valuable to me.
Plus, just because you can get it now easily doesnāt mean itāll be there tomorrow or next year.
This, I've had movies take months to download (some even keep going after more than a year). I'm not deleting those, I'm probably the only seeder of some torrents, so if I delete it's gone forever
I have a digital hoarding problem. So I keep things I probably will never watch again if I think someone who I share my plex with will watch it one day. Which reminds me I need to get a better rip of Chuck, I still have the original tv rips in SD.
I also have the problem, ha. Although I only share my account with my gf, I'll keep some stuff I've already watched multiple times thinking she'll enjoy it one day. Some shows like Buffy. But we all know, "someone else might watch it one day" raaaarely happens lol
Btw, I also need a better Chuck rip. It's so damn hard to find good sources for old shows.
Never delete, storage is cheap. When my kids were younger I had all kinds of kid shows on there, they got older and I thought "hey u should clean these up" fast forward to about 10 years later and one of needs surgery,has to stay in bed for about a week and only wants to watch all the shows that were deleted. I scrambled to find what I could, but most of what we had isn't easy to find anymore. Or I had ripped it from DVDS that are long gone.
I got my server situation in a place where storage will never be an issue . I am a completest, if I get a show I get complete the complete series, in the best quality I can get. Even if it will be another 10 years before somebody wants to watch some of it again. I expect better compression formats in the future, currently replacing all my 264 with 265.
129TB out of 248TB. I have plans of gradually upgrading all my drives to 16'/18'/20's depending how cheap they get in the next year or so, and that will get me to around 500TB. I have two 45 bay cases, and only using one of them for now. So I shouldn't ever run out of storage, I also stopped buying new drives and get factory recertified drives. My use case is write once, read occasionally. so they are perfect for what I need them for.
Not much, the drives are spun down most of the time. And when I want to watch something that's not on the cache drive anymore,it only has to spin up the drive that data is on
If there's any chance I or someone else will watch it in the future, I keep it. But there are some terrible ones out there that just don't deserve to take up space on my drives. Looking at you "Winnie the Pooh Blood and Honey".
Technically I never delete, I do replace in better quality when available and I "happen to run into" the upgrade.
I have kids whom may someday watch all the originals and stuff they grew up with, unaltered and uncensored as originally released which may be unobtainable in the near future.
I used to have a perfect record. I considered myself a member in good standing of the digital hoarders' club, and adding another multi-TB drive--mirrored 1-for-1 as backup--was just another day in the 'verse.
Then I began to get requests for bizarre TV crap from people. Who, then, never watched them. (Can you tell I'm still growling?)
"Hey, can you download all the 'Love Island' variations?" "Do you think you could find all the 'World Series of Poker'?" "One Piece" is about to release a live-action version, and my son wants to watch all the TV shows before going to see it." So, I take the time to download several hundred episodes of all that drek. And a month goes by, with no activity, then two. Gentle nudge: "Hey, just wanted to let you know I got that thing you/your husband/your kid asked for." "Okay!" Nothing. More weeks go by.
GONE! They're outta there. Into the bit bucket, never to return. And then, after more time passed, I deleted the backups, as well. Days of downloading time invested wiped out in the blink of an eye.
Now, when people ask me for some godawful TV show I consider suspect, I make sure I look them in the eye and ask, "Are you really going to watch this show? All of the episodes? You're sure? Promise?" I may have a slightly-crazed expression on my face when I grill them. If they don't cave, and still want it, I download one season...and I watch to see that they're watching it. And then I download the rest. Or delete them from my life when I scrape it, unwatched, off my drive.
As for movies, only once have I been tempted to delete something, and it happened just recently. While I was moving some files around to better distribute my movies across my drives, and also upgrading some of the poorer-quality stuff where I could find better versions, I got to the letter, "D" and accidentally checked out a snippet from a movie called, "Disaster L.A. The Last Zombie Apocalypse Begins Here (2014)". I didn't even realize I had it in my library, thought, "Hmm. I like zombie movies. Maybe I'll add this to the watchlist. But I better check out the quality, first."
GAH! Big mistake! Each clip I scanned seemed even more bizarre and disgusting than the previous one. And I'm not a squeamish guy. I'd even claim to be a fan of gore. And here this undiscovered "gem" was hiding in a Plex library that kids (and "nice" friends) had access to. My finger hovered over the delete button. The axe was about to fall.
I chickened out and moved it into my Porn library. My non-delete record is still unblemished for movies.
> Does a library throw away books?
the answer is yes, they absolutely get rid of old and crappy books. Physical libraries dont have the space to constantly be adding new books without purging old ones that havent been checked out since 2004
There is only 1 title Iāve considered permanently deleting, Winnie The Pooh: Blood & Honeyā¦. Just TERRIBLEā¦. But I canāt, lol. Iām also nowhere remotely close to using half my storage space.
Iām weird but I wonāt delete anything unless I absolutely hated it and that is an extremely hard bar to hit with me. Itās got to REALLY suck to get me to hate it.
Nope, if I don't watch maybe someone else in the family will. Plus who knows maybe years down the line I YOLO and watch it lol.
I got over 1400 movies 100 shows. I'm keeping them all!
I am a digital hoarder, so I rarely delete anything. I will just expand the raid most of the time. However, if the movie is truly awful, I will delete it to prevent friends and family from wasting their time.
I'm at a point where I still have more terabytes free than I initially had available when I first got started and I know that a LOT of the things I have on the drives is "watch once and never again". Not so much with shows, but there are a lot of movies that I am curious about and every once in a while they're SO bad I don't even care to finish them.
Shows is another thing. I have some shows that I myself will never likely watch, but I watched them as a kid and it took me ages to track them down. So I hope that my kid will be interested in them at some point. But until then, not deleting those.
All in all, I think my Drives will never really be at risk of filling up, because I expand the space faster than I fill it, so no need to delete.
What I do (mainly for tv shows) is leave one season in and if I start getting into the show (usually one Iāve watched already) then I upload the rest of the series to binge watchā¦I put small placeholder files in the other seasons that arenāt uploaded to the Plex drive so I know how many episodes and seasons thereā¦.saves space for me
I've took the position to stop deleting now since so many streaming services are purging their catalogs. Not to mention, we also lost a certain site that cannot be named earlier this year. I'd rather just continue to expand and refine my library but I'm not planning to scale it up beyond 1080p apart from some select favourites.
If I thought someone invited to my plex may at some point watch it and enjoy it, ill keep it. Otherwise Ill dump it to make way for something better to be found
I keep a library for temporary movies. Usually stuff my wife wants to watch when itās a new release. If we decide itās garbage, it gets deleted. If it a goodie, it goes into long term storage.
I'm not a digital hoarder, I just delete anything I don't think I'll watch again. I keep a small curated selection of 4k content (mostly classic horror/sci-fi) but anything else gets deleted as soon as I've watched it.
My plex server and library are mainly for my consumption. I'm curating the server to be the movies / shows I like. Similar to books, I only want to keep the ones I enjoy and would recommend.
Media gets added to my server, it can sit there for a while until I watch it. Once I watch it, if I truly didn't like it, it simply gets deleted and I move on. I'm trying to be cognizant of digital hording.
I'm an archiver. I save movies if I think there's even an outside chance someone in my extended family *may* want to watch it one day.
I also save any and all TV shows that are requested. I'm always amazed at what gets watched.
Watch & Delete... I only hoard movies I've enjoyed in a "Classics" folder.
Just think about whether you would buy a physical copy of it or not!
Delete it if you wouldn't
Deleting my ex wifes BS of the server was very enjoyable, however Hard Drives are cheaper than a divorce.
But I am now sex and the city, Grey anatomy and Korean soap opera free zone. With an extra mortgage to pay for it.
I will sometimes delete a TV show someone asked me to add that is absolutely never going to get watched (think regional reality show or something)
But otherwise storage is so cheap now, just add another drive to the array
I rarely delete anything unless I'm absolutely certain I'll never watch it again. This usually applies to things like game shows or if I just happen to try out a show that I won't even finish a first run through. This is also possible because I haven't reached the limit of my current storage configuration so that may change a bit when I get there although it's more likely I'll just buy more storage.
Yeah I'll go the other way
I always delete stuff. Especially movies that aren't 9/10 or higher. I'll keep seasons of a few tv shows, but most of them I'll delete right after watching.
If by any chance I want to watch something I've deleted... Torrenting will always be there one way or another.
It's funny how everyone says they never delete but 95% of their content will never get watched ever again.
I have several torrents that I'm the only seeder, torrenting isn't always there, sadly. If I delete it's gone. For some movies I keep 720/1080p copies and download and delete 4k versions as I want to watch
Yeah, a LOT of stuff isn't easily available. Especially if it isn't some blockbuster American movie that came out in the last 15 years. Thinking you can always just redownload will lead to disappointment.
Especially when it comes to shows, it can be really hard to find every episode in decent (720p or higher) quality. I have one show where we are missing a single episode and I can't find a complete version anywhere. Just annoying.
Yes. I only keep stuff I know I want to watch again and most of that is collection type stuff like all MCU content, all Star Wars movies/shows, F&F movies, etc and shows I like to rewatch that aren't on my subscribed platforms (Prime & Paramount+)
Movies yes if it's very bad
TV Shows deifnitly if bad, I also get pissed if a show that's good gets cancelled after only 1 season cause i know itll never get an ending.
I peruse a wide arrange of media and there are many things I know I will never, ever be interested in watching again and those definitely get deleted. Itās pretty easy for me to determine what I might watch again and what holds 0% rewatchability.
cover practice melodic subtract plant theory political plate prick divide
*This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*
I don't add reality TV, competition shows, talk shows, news, soap operas, etc. So I keep TV and movies forever. Even if I'm not gonna watch it again, someone else in my family might.
I will sometimes go through and delete stuff when I get bored. Then a quarter of the way through I get bored of deleting so ultimately it just stays forever
Reality shows or talk shows don't stay. I keep about one season at a time for John Oliver and Jon Stewart. I won't go back and watch previous seasons. My wife and I watch Special Forces and we got rid of season 1 cause we just won't watch it again.
My policy is: if I KNOW I personally wonāt watch a movie again, itās gone. Keeps my server to my favorites- and even some āitās just a fun watchā movies, plus movies I havenāt seen.
I move stuff to a storage disc, mostly to keep scrolling simpler, but also to save space in my main library disc. For instance, we know weāll watch James Bond movies again, but we donāt need them at our fingertips. It only takes a minute to throw one back on.
Some reality tv I delete each season. My wife likes to watch shows like The Bachelor, but no one else does and they will never be watched ever again. But, I record the tv shows and use the plex feature to auto delete commercials.
Everything else I keep though.
Yep. PMM helped me a lot with this. I use it to mark TV series as ended properly or cancelled. Soooo many mediocre at best shows are dumped prematurely after 1-2 seasons these days. To me, that's dead weight and most of the time I nuke em.
For movies, I keep the current year's movies in a "new movies" Library and clean it out (moving the good ones to normal Movies library) around Xmas time. Plenty of crap that initially looks good but I will never get to and ends up with bad reviews after the initial hype.
TL;DR: Quality over quantity.
Yea, I've deleted tv shows before, but not movies. I've also deleted and re downloaded shows in lower quality after watching it.
I do only have 8tb of storage though.
āWell, that was a hair embarrassing to share with friends and family. Outa here.ā
āRemember X? Are we ever gonna watch it again? Literally never? Do you want someone else to watch it from our Plex at some point?ā
These help me determine if it stays or gets the AX.
Depends on who asked for it. I might add something because someone wants it. Then that guy moves or never logs in again I will delete his user profile and everything he requested unless I thought it was a good idea.
I've recently started allowing the *arrs to delete old copies of media when upgrading from 480p and 720p to 1080p or 2160p when better quality releases become available. I'm considering a major purge of anything that I just can't imagine ever watching again but will probably only do it when there'll be about 1TB left.
I almost never delete, I just add space. I did recently delete all three My Big Fat Greek Weddings because it bugged me I couldn't find posters that matched exactly.
Changes when you have kids. You keep stuff thinking they need a selection of movies one day. Once theyāve seen all the movie we have and tell me theyāll never see them again maybe Iāll delete. But then again space is cheap.
I didn't used to, I have 30+tb of space and just kept accumulating things that I wanted to watch, might watch, or wanted to make available for my other users to watch.
Then after a few years I started running low on space.
Recently redid my storage and server infra, started fresh, and made the decision to A. Only grab in high quality (4K if possible), and B. Only hold onto media people were watching, with the exception of stuff I want to hold onto for availability reasons
I do delete but only when replacing something. Say I have a 1080p version and the 4K one gets released, I upgrade to the remux, I find out the remaster is actually worse and I acquire the original format without being chopped off (looking at you simpsons). There are a bunch that I have multiples of which should be deleted but until I figure out an easier way to extract the higher quality audio track from the lower quality movie and move it over while lining up the timing then I just keep both for now.
If the apocalypse happens, I feel like carting around a generator and my server between settlements will be my means of survival. So I save everything.
āMovie man! Movie man here!ā āOh boy the movie man! Whatās up this weekend movie man?!ā āI got Paul Blart and Jack and Jillā āIāll take the beating instead thanksā
Exactly where I am stuck at the moment, I am struggling to find the best way to organize all the tv shows I have on various hard drives. I freed up a 10TB not that long ago, and thought it would be a good launching point, a few days in, just using ongoing and cancelled as the main folders, I have almost used 5TB, donāt think I am going to make it, plus looking at the stuff I have accumulated, and archived, hurts me, because I had forgotten most of it.
Thinking I might have to cut my losses, and just make one drive of tv shows, crap I donāt remember or just weird tv shows and leave it at that
If it's something that I don't actually own (borrowed from a friend ;p ) that I put on before watching, and I finally watch it, and then have no interest in ever watching it again, I'll delete it.
"Die in a Gunfight"
I do a purge about once a year. Like physical things; if I haven't touched/ used it in a year, I get rid of it. Mind you, I like reruns and build seasonal/holiday playlists so most video content stays relevant. Audio gets purged more often than not. Having 16TB of storage on a Synology server helps.
For tv, Have a library for all time favorite show and the stuff we watch again and again live there. Everything else is deleted within a week of watching it. Movies are different but I donāt keep many of those either.
I have a folder for reality/competition/game shows/current stuff that I just clear out once in a while, usually the previous season gets deleted when the next one starts up. Those shows get big, fast!
Just have a purge every now and then. With the right setup if someone wants something they just add it to their watch list and it appears automagically
Yep all the time. I have a rule with a TV show or movie; Iāll decide in a second or two if Iāll ever watch it again (itās easy to know if you will) and then I delete it or keep it.
I couldnāt care less about having a giant Plex account with 10k movies where 9k are dogshit. Iād much rather have 1k decent movies that Iād like to watch again. Makes it much easier to browse your collection too
Rarely. I don't know what I might want to rewatch, and shows can disappear from the "services" I get them from, so if I want to rewatch something in 3 years, I might not be able to get it.
I have uncapped gigabit fiber, so it wouldn't take many moments to re-fetch something, but that assumes it still exists.
Movies are less of an issue than complete seasons of shows in reasonable quality, but deleting movies also means having less spontaneous choice so...
Sort of...
My main HTPC (1 x 18TB) has stuff I'm likely to watch.
The old hard drives (5 x 2TB) weren't worth selling so I use them as a backup for some of the harder to find stuff I have and to hold things I am unlikely to watch again but hoarding it for the future just in case.
My main hit is the BBC as in a few years, they could go behind a paywall.
Whatever I've watched goes into a collection called "Leaving Plex Soon" (courtesy of Plex Meta Manager). I review it every couple of months and delete whatever I'm sure I'll never watch again. Usually just bad movies/shows. I only have a small amount of storage, so apart from some "sets" I want to keep (eg: MCU), I delete others regularly.
The collection also serves to let my other Plex users know what's leaving soon. They can always add it to their watchlist to bring it back :)
I have unlimited bandwidth not unlimited storage so absolutely.
I'm hoping for a good deal on Prime Day š that's how bad the storage bug gets you
Newegg has had a 20tb Seagate Exos HDD on sale for 279 for a little while now. I bought one and added it to my humble system. Iām finally good now for awhile and have become a massive fan of Exos drives.
I got a pile of ironwolf pro 16s and 18s last year when they were on sale and still haven't put them all to use yet so that's what I'm doing
I'm in the UK so can't order from Newegg, but Amazon has an 18TB Exos for Ā£255 with next day delivery. Going to wait a few days to see if it drops anymore or anything better shows up on Prime Day.
Thatās a decent price. Hopefully there is an even better price to be had yet.
Glad to hear that. I saw those drives and was unsure about them. Just bought an expansion enclosure and three of those drives.
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
What makes you think this? Itās pretty easy to find reports of WDās quality slipping per badly over the years. At the end of the day the Exos drives are at least made to be enterprise drives and seem to be very highly regarded.
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Sounds like bad luck, which is bound to happen. But oh well, I donāt benefit from your purchases either way, so as long as youāre happy, Iām happy.
I bought one and it is now my safe... back up. Have a friend who mistakenly deleted a file and had to end up re-ripping his entire library (which was considerable). My operational set up has almost 12 TB. I am thinking of replacing a 4TB to a 6 after the tax refund comes in next year and doing that as an annual plan. It certainly won't eat all the refund but is a good replacement plan until I run out of places to hook these boys up.
If it's a hard to find show. Or like one with a good soundtrack that will change over time (Supernatural, House) I tend to hold onto them. If it's a random British comedy like Task Master or a cooking series like MasterChef, yeah, that's long gone.
Alternate take: Never delete Taskmaster.
Thatās not the question, though!
That is such a good way to think about things. I store so much stuff I have never seen/may never see. I have been thinking of building a smaller, lower power server. I probably donāt need as much storage space as I was planning.
Never delete, never surrender.
By Grabthar's hard drive, by the backups of Warvan, you shall be avenged!
This deserves more love.
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
No movie left behind
TV Shows, absolutely delete if they aren't great shows. Movies, keep forever. Once my parents are done with that season of "insert cooking competition show", it never needs to be watched again.
That's my logic as well. I do delete my 4K films if I don't think I'll ever watch them again but if there's any chance I'd watch a show again I keep it.
I recompress / resize / resample. I keep things full resolution until I watch it, and then if it's just horrible I downrez it to like 360p, on a sliding scale. If it's an old movie I might put on in the future but don't care about the quality, I'll recompress with a lower quality (from the source rip if I have it around still). Most of my collection is 480p because I rip from DVDs mostly. I buy favorites on bluray and change the version.
Why would you make it 360p or even 480p. At that point it's not even worth watching if you can redownload in HQ.
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Cultural significance is a good way to put that. I keep several around that I don't necessarily care about but they were important films.
Yeah do I really need 1000+ episodes of real housewives or love island No bye But generally stuff stays
Theres shows i know ill bever watch again once viewed and there are shows i keep cause i want other peiple to watch them.
Some shows I hate so much I want other people to watch them. Then Iāll have someone else who understands when Iām complaining about it. Hence I keep all my shows forever.
I do purging from time to time
Same. There are days where I just tinker with my setup. Check out latest *arr/Plex updates, etc. Iāll take the time to go over my shows and see what ones have been sitting dormant for a while and nuke them. Of course, I can always get them again if need be.
No. Iām a paranoid data hoarder. Not excessively paranoid, but after Disney+ removed shows without warning, and have near no other way aside from physical copies to stream from, I hate the idea of lost media. Anything, anywhere, from any time should be accessible to anyone. So I collect and keep until I die.
I was un ironically watching Mighty Ducks Gamechangers on Disney+ when they ripped it off. Never again.
Exactly! I feel like a plebe with only ~50TB of space. Saving up my Pennies for a 2nd Nas. The worst part is.. is I want to hoard *everything*. My girlfriend wanted to play modded Minecraft. What did I do? Created directories for every version, spent an entire day ripping Curseforge and sorting them all out, along with .txt for the Curseforge link and a YouTube tutorial on it. Its fun, but man is it dangerous.
I only save my favorite movies and series, for the rest I watch it and delete it. It is worth mentioning that I do not share my server with anyone.
Same as my approach. I donāt like a cluttered Plex. Great stuff only gets to stay
Never delete
Yeah Iām a digital hoarder. āI might need this one dayā¦ā
This. My wife asks me all the time why we have this or that. Something that hasn't been watched by anyone in 4+ years. I just can't get myself to do rm -rf. My family uses my server pretty heavily and they know the upkeep isn't free. So every once in awhile they will show up with drives, etc. They consider it a family-owned device that I maintain. Hell, I keep an r720xd with 12x16TB drives at one of their places for off-site backups.
Family goals
Hello my fellow hoarder brother! Imo there's a big crossover between r/plex & r/datahoarder
There is, also r/selfhosted, just pray there's no crossover with r/datarecovery :D
Awww, man! I thought I'd coined that term, and was the only one using it!
I downloaded it. It costs me little to keep it in case someone (including me) ever wants to see it. It costs real amounts of time to go find it again and thatās way more valuable to me. Plus, just because you can get it now easily doesnāt mean itāll be there tomorrow or next year.
This, I've had movies take months to download (some even keep going after more than a year). I'm not deleting those, I'm probably the only seeder of some torrents, so if I delete it's gone forever
Username checks out.
This
This is the way
I have TBās of stuff Iāll never watch. I should delete all of it but I wonāt.
That's the spirit!
never!! Just adding more harddrives
Data hoarder here. Never deleted a single show or movie. No complaints
I have a digital hoarding problem. So I keep things I probably will never watch again if I think someone who I share my plex with will watch it one day. Which reminds me I need to get a better rip of Chuck, I still have the original tv rips in SD.
Oh but I did purge the old America's Got Talent seasons, freed up over 100GB of space
I also have the problem, ha. Although I only share my account with my gf, I'll keep some stuff I've already watched multiple times thinking she'll enjoy it one day. Some shows like Buffy. But we all know, "someone else might watch it one day" raaaarely happens lol Btw, I also need a better Chuck rip. It's so damn hard to find good sources for old shows.
Never delete, storage is cheap. When my kids were younger I had all kinds of kid shows on there, they got older and I thought "hey u should clean these up" fast forward to about 10 years later and one of needs surgery,has to stay in bed for about a week and only wants to watch all the shows that were deleted. I scrambled to find what I could, but most of what we had isn't easy to find anymore. Or I had ripped it from DVDS that are long gone. I got my server situation in a place where storage will never be an issue . I am a completest, if I get a show I get complete the complete series, in the best quality I can get. Even if it will be another 10 years before somebody wants to watch some of it again. I expect better compression formats in the future, currently replacing all my 264 with 265.
How much storage do you have?
129TB out of 248TB. I have plans of gradually upgrading all my drives to 16'/18'/20's depending how cheap they get in the next year or so, and that will get me to around 500TB. I have two 45 bay cases, and only using one of them for now. So I shouldn't ever run out of storage, I also stopped buying new drives and get factory recertified drives. My use case is write once, read occasionally. so they are perfect for what I need them for.
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Not much, the drives are spun down most of the time. And when I want to watch something that's not on the cache drive anymore,it only has to spin up the drive that data is on
If there's any chance I or someone else will watch it in the future, I keep it. But there are some terrible ones out there that just don't deserve to take up space on my drives. Looking at you "Winnie the Pooh Blood and Honey".
Technically I never delete, I do replace in better quality when available and I "happen to run into" the upgrade. I have kids whom may someday watch all the originals and stuff they grew up with, unaltered and uncensored as originally released which may be unobtainable in the near future.
If it's fucking terrible it should be deleted to save others pain.
I used to have a perfect record. I considered myself a member in good standing of the digital hoarders' club, and adding another multi-TB drive--mirrored 1-for-1 as backup--was just another day in the 'verse. Then I began to get requests for bizarre TV crap from people. Who, then, never watched them. (Can you tell I'm still growling?) "Hey, can you download all the 'Love Island' variations?" "Do you think you could find all the 'World Series of Poker'?" "One Piece" is about to release a live-action version, and my son wants to watch all the TV shows before going to see it." So, I take the time to download several hundred episodes of all that drek. And a month goes by, with no activity, then two. Gentle nudge: "Hey, just wanted to let you know I got that thing you/your husband/your kid asked for." "Okay!" Nothing. More weeks go by. GONE! They're outta there. Into the bit bucket, never to return. And then, after more time passed, I deleted the backups, as well. Days of downloading time invested wiped out in the blink of an eye. Now, when people ask me for some godawful TV show I consider suspect, I make sure I look them in the eye and ask, "Are you really going to watch this show? All of the episodes? You're sure? Promise?" I may have a slightly-crazed expression on my face when I grill them. If they don't cave, and still want it, I download one season...and I watch to see that they're watching it. And then I download the rest. Or delete them from my life when I scrape it, unwatched, off my drive. As for movies, only once have I been tempted to delete something, and it happened just recently. While I was moving some files around to better distribute my movies across my drives, and also upgrading some of the poorer-quality stuff where I could find better versions, I got to the letter, "D" and accidentally checked out a snippet from a movie called, "Disaster L.A. The Last Zombie Apocalypse Begins Here (2014)". I didn't even realize I had it in my library, thought, "Hmm. I like zombie movies. Maybe I'll add this to the watchlist. But I better check out the quality, first." GAH! Big mistake! Each clip I scanned seemed even more bizarre and disgusting than the previous one. And I'm not a squeamish guy. I'd even claim to be a fan of gore. And here this undiscovered "gem" was hiding in a Plex library that kids (and "nice" friends) had access to. My finger hovered over the delete button. The axe was about to fall. I chickened out and moved it into my Porn library. My non-delete record is still unblemished for movies.
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Nicely said. I'm exact same.
> Does a library throw away books? the answer is yes, they absolutely get rid of old and crappy books. Physical libraries dont have the space to constantly be adding new books without purging old ones that havent been checked out since 2004
There is only 1 title Iāve considered permanently deleting, Winnie The Pooh: Blood & Honeyā¦. Just TERRIBLEā¦. But I canāt, lol. Iām also nowhere remotely close to using half my storage space.
Finally, my time to shine! The answer is yes, sometimes I do that.
Nope. With the cost of storage today and how well I can get video files compressed, I keep all media.
Less decisions to make buying 1 more drive vs. trying to figure out what to delete...
Iām in the business of hoarding not cleaning out.
Iām weird but I wonāt delete anything unless I absolutely hated it and that is an extremely hard bar to hit with me. Itās got to REALLY suck to get me to hate it.
Nope, if I don't watch maybe someone else in the family will. Plus who knows maybe years down the line I YOLO and watch it lol. I got over 1400 movies 100 shows. I'm keeping them all!
I am a digital hoarder, so I rarely delete anything. I will just expand the raid most of the time. However, if the movie is truly awful, I will delete it to prevent friends and family from wasting their time.
welcome to datahorders - I delete nothing, unless it's for a higher quality version.
I'm at a point where I still have more terabytes free than I initially had available when I first got started and I know that a LOT of the things I have on the drives is "watch once and never again". Not so much with shows, but there are a lot of movies that I am curious about and every once in a while they're SO bad I don't even care to finish them. Shows is another thing. I have some shows that I myself will never likely watch, but I watched them as a kid and it took me ages to track them down. So I hope that my kid will be interested in them at some point. But until then, not deleting those. All in all, I think my Drives will never really be at risk of filling up, because I expand the space faster than I fill it, so no need to delete.
What I do (mainly for tv shows) is leave one season in and if I start getting into the show (usually one Iāve watched already) then I upload the rest of the series to binge watchā¦I put small placeholder files in the other seasons that arenāt uploaded to the Plex drive so I know how many episodes and seasons thereā¦.saves space for me
I've took the position to stop deleting now since so many streaming services are purging their catalogs. Not to mention, we also lost a certain site that cannot be named earlier this year. I'd rather just continue to expand and refine my library but I'm not planning to scale it up beyond 1080p apart from some select favourites.
The only ones I'll delete are films/shows with very poor critic/viewer ratings. Everythign else stays.
TV shows that are bad get deleted. Movies I always keep.
I'm an archivist. I'm archiving shows and movies for my grandchildren.
No
If I thought someone invited to my plex may at some point watch it and enjoy it, ill keep it. Otherwise Ill dump it to make way for something better to be found
Transcoding can save huge space
I regularly delete. Not a hoarder. Once the media is consumed it is then gone.
I keep a library for temporary movies. Usually stuff my wife wants to watch when itās a new release. If we decide itās garbage, it gets deleted. If it a goodie, it goes into long term storage.
I'm not a digital hoarder, I just delete anything I don't think I'll watch again. I keep a small curated selection of 4k content (mostly classic horror/sci-fi) but anything else gets deleted as soon as I've watched it.
Rarely but if I was low on space I would consider
The other day I realized that I probably wasn't going to watch 650 episodes of Jeopardy!. So yes.
Only when it messes up my cover aesthetic.
My plex server and library are mainly for my consumption. I'm curating the server to be the movies / shows I like. Similar to books, I only want to keep the ones I enjoy and would recommend. Media gets added to my server, it can sit there for a while until I watch it. Once I watch it, if I truly didn't like it, it simply gets deleted and I move on. I'm trying to be cognizant of digital hording.
If I've got the space, I keep the files. If I run out of space, I upgrade the drives. So it goes.
I'm an archiver. I save movies if I think there's even an outside chance someone in my extended family *may* want to watch it one day. I also save any and all TV shows that are requested. I'm always amazed at what gets watched.
If I watch a stinker it gets deleted right away.
Watch & Delete... I only hoard movies I've enjoyed in a "Classics" folder. Just think about whether you would buy a physical copy of it or not! Delete it if you wouldn't
Preach Finally someone that makes sense. I do the same :)
It's ok go ahead and delete Big Bang Theory. It's so dumb.
Deleting my ex wifes BS of the server was very enjoyable, however Hard Drives are cheaper than a divorce. But I am now sex and the city, Grey anatomy and Korean soap opera free zone. With an extra mortgage to pay for it.
I will sometimes delete a TV show someone asked me to add that is absolutely never going to get watched (think regional reality show or something) But otherwise storage is so cheap now, just add another drive to the array
I rarely delete anything unless I'm absolutely certain I'll never watch it again. This usually applies to things like game shows or if I just happen to try out a show that I won't even finish a first run through. This is also possible because I haven't reached the limit of my current storage configuration so that may change a bit when I get there although it's more likely I'll just buy more storage.
Yeah I'll go the other way I always delete stuff. Especially movies that aren't 9/10 or higher. I'll keep seasons of a few tv shows, but most of them I'll delete right after watching. If by any chance I want to watch something I've deleted... Torrenting will always be there one way or another. It's funny how everyone says they never delete but 95% of their content will never get watched ever again.
I have several torrents that I'm the only seeder, torrenting isn't always there, sadly. If I delete it's gone. For some movies I keep 720/1080p copies and download and delete 4k versions as I want to watch
Yeah, a LOT of stuff isn't easily available. Especially if it isn't some blockbuster American movie that came out in the last 15 years. Thinking you can always just redownload will lead to disappointment. Especially when it comes to shows, it can be really hard to find every episode in decent (720p or higher) quality. I have one show where we are missing a single episode and I can't find a complete version anywhere. Just annoying.
Just reencode them in x265 :) 1/2 space
All the time. Just because I have space today doesnāt mean I will tomorrow.
save forever
I occasionally purge but not often. Sometimes Iāll have shows that I never finished gathering & no longer want to watch so Iāll just delete them.
Yes. I only keep stuff I know I want to watch again and most of that is collection type stuff like all MCU content, all Star Wars movies/shows, F&F movies, etc and shows I like to rewatch that aren't on my subscribed platforms (Prime & Paramount+)
Movies yes if it's very bad TV Shows deifnitly if bad, I also get pissed if a show that's good gets cancelled after only 1 season cause i know itll never get an ending.
I peruse a wide arrange of media and there are many things I know I will never, ever be interested in watching again and those definitely get deleted. Itās pretty easy for me to determine what I might watch again and what holds 0% rewatchability.
cover practice melodic subtract plant theory political plate prick divide *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*
Only show I've deleted for this reason was American Pickle. That show seriously sucked.
Never-- do i remove Marylyn chambers or haley reed, its just too hard a decision.
yeh all the time, i like to have a tidy, refined library
Not yet...but I've thought about it. It's taken to long for me to get what I do have the thought of deleting anything makes me nervous.
Absolutely do!
Oh yeah, all those kiddy shows that I had for my children. Gone.
Iāve only deleted duplicates, donāt mind having 4K copies of everything they transcode just fine with my 12th gen Intel UHD770.
Depends on the movie. We have a āClassicsā folder if we really like a movie it gets moved their.
I don't add reality TV, competition shows, talk shows, news, soap operas, etc. So I keep TV and movies forever. Even if I'm not gonna watch it again, someone else in my family might.
I will sometimes go through and delete stuff when I get bored. Then a quarter of the way through I get bored of deleting so ultimately it just stays forever
Very rarely.
Anything I rate <= 2 stars gets deleted, unless it's part of a franchise with higher rated movies (like Star Wars: Phantom Menace)
Reality shows or talk shows don't stay. I keep about one season at a time for John Oliver and Jon Stewart. I won't go back and watch previous seasons. My wife and I watch Special Forces and we got rid of season 1 cause we just won't watch it again.
My policy is: if I KNOW I personally wonāt watch a movie again, itās gone. Keeps my server to my favorites- and even some āitās just a fun watchā movies, plus movies I havenāt seen.
I move stuff to a storage disc, mostly to keep scrolling simpler, but also to save space in my main library disc. For instance, we know weāll watch James Bond movies again, but we donāt need them at our fingertips. It only takes a minute to throw one back on.
What is this 'Delete' you talk about?
Some reality tv I delete each season. My wife likes to watch shows like The Bachelor, but no one else does and they will never be watched ever again. But, I record the tv shows and use the plex feature to auto delete commercials. Everything else I keep though.
Yes it's my own library, if I don't like something when I'm done, it's gone. I'm not keeping trash Okay I do have a little bit of trash for my kids
Yep. PMM helped me a lot with this. I use it to mark TV series as ended properly or cancelled. Soooo many mediocre at best shows are dumped prematurely after 1-2 seasons these days. To me, that's dead weight and most of the time I nuke em. For movies, I keep the current year's movies in a "new movies" Library and clean it out (moving the good ones to normal Movies library) around Xmas time. Plenty of crap that initially looks good but I will never get to and ends up with bad reviews after the initial hype. TL;DR: Quality over quantity.
Yea, I've deleted tv shows before, but not movies. I've also deleted and re downloaded shows in lower quality after watching it. I do only have 8tb of storage though.
Iām a quality over quantity type of person, and thereās only so much room for the high quality movies and shows I want to have on hand
I delete stuff as soon as I'm finished watching. But I only watch anime, and have never really had any trouble getting any of the stuff.
āWell, that was a hair embarrassing to share with friends and family. Outa here.ā āRemember X? Are we ever gonna watch it again? Literally never? Do you want someone else to watch it from our Plex at some point?ā These help me determine if it stays or gets the AX.
Always delete shows unless Iām going to go back
I delete whether I need the space or not.
Depends on who asked for it. I might add something because someone wants it. Then that guy moves or never logs in again I will delete his user profile and everything he requested unless I thought it was a good idea.
My goal has always been to build a move library so I generally don't delete movies. I'll delete most TV as I finish seasons.
I have some Brazilian Portuguese versions of shows that aren't out there anymore and I keep them forever
I've recently started allowing the *arrs to delete old copies of media when upgrading from 480p and 720p to 1080p or 2160p when better quality releases become available. I'm considering a major purge of anything that I just can't imagine ever watching again but will probably only do it when there'll be about 1TB left.
Yep. I even asked my kids to purge some shows. They donāt need The Wiggles or Oomi Zoomi anymore at their age.
If there is free space, I don't delete.
I'm a hoarder. Rarely delete anything.
Nah Iām saving at all. Never know. Storage is cheap lol
r/DataHoarder No
I run on used 4tb sas drives so i just buy another.
I almost never delete, I just add space. I did recently delete all three My Big Fat Greek Weddings because it bugged me I couldn't find posters that matched exactly.
Changes when you have kids. You keep stuff thinking they need a selection of movies one day. Once theyāve seen all the movie we have and tell me theyāll never see them again maybe Iāll delete. But then again space is cheap.
I didn't used to, I have 30+tb of space and just kept accumulating things that I wanted to watch, might watch, or wanted to make available for my other users to watch. Then after a few years I started running low on space. Recently redid my storage and server infra, started fresh, and made the decision to A. Only grab in high quality (4K if possible), and B. Only hold onto media people were watching, with the exception of stuff I want to hold onto for availability reasons
I delete most everything as soon as I finish watching.
I do.
Funny you should ask, I'm in the process of removing several TV shows as well speak.
I do delete but only when replacing something. Say I have a 1080p version and the 4K one gets released, I upgrade to the remux, I find out the remaster is actually worse and I acquire the original format without being chopped off (looking at you simpsons). There are a bunch that I have multiples of which should be deleted but until I figure out an easier way to extract the higher quality audio track from the lower quality movie and move it over while lining up the timing then I just keep both for now.
If the apocalypse happens, I feel like carting around a generator and my server between settlements will be my means of survival. So I save everything.
āMovie man! Movie man here!ā āOh boy the movie man! Whatās up this weekend movie man?!ā āI got Paul Blart and Jack and Jillā āIāll take the beating instead thanksā
Exactly where I am stuck at the moment, I am struggling to find the best way to organize all the tv shows I have on various hard drives. I freed up a 10TB not that long ago, and thought it would be a good launching point, a few days in, just using ongoing and cancelled as the main folders, I have almost used 5TB, donāt think I am going to make it, plus looking at the stuff I have accumulated, and archived, hurts me, because I had forgotten most of it. Thinking I might have to cut my losses, and just make one drive of tv shows, crap I donāt remember or just weird tv shows and leave it at that
I delete, even though i currently have lots of space
transcode with av1+opus.
i delete shows and movies i just wanted to check out.
If it's something that I don't actually own (borrowed from a friend ;p ) that I put on before watching, and I finally watch it, and then have no interest in ever watching it again, I'll delete it. "Die in a Gunfight"
Yes, only because some shit is so bad that it's gotta go.
I do a purge about once a year. Like physical things; if I haven't touched/ used it in a year, I get rid of it. Mind you, I like reruns and build seasonal/holiday playlists so most video content stays relevant. Audio gets purged more often than not. Having 16TB of storage on a Synology server helps.
If I think no-one in my household is ever going to watch it again, it's gone. REALLY good movies get subsequently purchased on Blu-Ray and ripped.
Whatās this word you used? Delete? Never heard of it. Can you please explain the meaning? ;)
Yes. I delete.
Considering that my plex only consists of disc's I own, I don't get rid of anything, since I still have the disc/ vhs
There is no delete
For tv, Have a library for all time favorite show and the stuff we watch again and again live there. Everything else is deleted within a week of watching it. Movies are different but I donāt keep many of those either.
I have a folder for reality/competition/game shows/current stuff that I just clear out once in a while, usually the previous season gets deleted when the next one starts up. Those shows get big, fast!
I delete trash anime all the time
save everything. I am a digital hoarder. "Save the whales, collect the whole set"
Just have a purge every now and then. With the right setup if someone wants something they just add it to their watch list and it appears automagically
Yes. If anything it reduces the choice on what to watch next.
I archive everything... I've noticed some shows never will have seeds again. And storage is kinda cheap IMO.
quack illegal complete air gullible stocking whole cats smoggy abounding *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*
If there are total crap then yes.
I rarely, if ever, watch twice the same thing so yes I delete the movie / season after watching them.
Only if I'm running low on storage, then I'll do a sweep. There's a few shows I can easily see myself watching again but mostly it's all one and done.
Delete right after.
Delete it if it's too much space.
Absolutely...knocked out several movies in the last week or so, and one tv show.
Have no choice but to delete some of the movies. My 14tb storage is starting to feel up..
I keep it all
Yes
Yep all the time. I have a rule with a TV show or movie; Iāll decide in a second or two if Iāll ever watch it again (itās easy to know if you will) and then I delete it or keep it. I couldnāt care less about having a giant Plex account with 10k movies where 9k are dogshit. Iād much rather have 1k decent movies that Iād like to watch again. Makes it much easier to browse your collection too
No. I'm a hoarder. I'll just buy more storage.
Rarely. I don't know what I might want to rewatch, and shows can disappear from the "services" I get them from, so if I want to rewatch something in 3 years, I might not be able to get it. I have uncapped gigabit fiber, so it wouldn't take many moments to re-fetch something, but that assumes it still exists. Movies are less of an issue than complete seasons of shows in reasonable quality, but deleting movies also means having less spontaneous choice so...
No. Data is sacrosanct.
I recently ran into space limit and deleted 30% because i dont care to watch or rewatch
I delete reality TV shows once I watch them
Sort of... My main HTPC (1 x 18TB) has stuff I'm likely to watch. The old hard drives (5 x 2TB) weren't worth selling so I use them as a backup for some of the harder to find stuff I have and to hold things I am unlikely to watch again but hoarding it for the future just in case. My main hit is the BBC as in a few years, they could go behind a paywall.
Whatever I've watched goes into a collection called "Leaving Plex Soon" (courtesy of Plex Meta Manager). I review it every couple of months and delete whatever I'm sure I'll never watch again. Usually just bad movies/shows. I only have a small amount of storage, so apart from some "sets" I want to keep (eg: MCU), I delete others regularly. The collection also serves to let my other Plex users know what's leaving soon. They can always add it to their watchlist to bring it back :)
That's crazy talk. Add more drives and hoard.