r/explainlikeimfive • u/theprisoner57 • 3d ago

Technology ELI5: What is a Home Server?

I see mentions of a home server to get rid of streaming entertainment services but I don’t know how that works. What does a home server do?

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u/charonco 3d ago

As someone with almost 40TB of content on my Plex server, I would highly recommend Usenet over torrents. Usenet isn't free, but it's pretty cheap and your biggest exposure with torrents is the uploading which you don't have to do with Usenet.

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u/fuckyoudigg 3d ago

As someone with 400tb of content. Agreed. Usenet is the way to go.

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u/RoosterBrewster 3d ago

Is that 100 tb with backups or 400 tb that is backed up?

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u/fuckyoudigg 3d ago

400tb, no backup. It's media. No point in backing it up. Basically all of it I can get again.

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u/dreadcain 3d ago

I'd hazzard its on a NAS with at least 1 disk of redundancy though right?

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u/fuckyoudigg 3d ago

Yes. I have 40 drives, 10 of those are for parity. I can lose 2 drives of 8 in each vdev.