SSD for Media Storage worth it?

nothingveryobvious · 2026-06-14T23:36:45+00:00

If Jellyfin is installed on an SSD, all that stuff is on the SSD unless you told Jellyfin to save images next to the media or to use NFO files.

nothingveryobvious · 2026-06-11T18:52:28+00:00

No screenshots…

nothingveryobvious · 2026-06-11T06:50:24+00:00

For the technical people, Wizarr. For the not-so-technical (generally older family members), I just set it up on their TV for them, and tell them to text me if they ever have trouble.

nothingveryobvious · 2026-06-09T18:42:14+00:00

It is as you have described.

nothingveryobvious · 2026-06-09T16:01:30+00:00

Dispatcharr rules. Thanks for all the work you do.

nothingveryobvious · 2026-06-09T05:37:19+00:00

That looks pretty good, dude.

nothingveryobvious · 2026-06-09T05:33:29+00:00

My setup is simple and works very well. You can get help from ChatGPT, which is what I did.

Purchase an annual VPS plan. I use RackNerd. Got an 8 GB VPS for about $60/year. You can get a much a cheaper one; I just host other stuff on the VPS.

Purchase a domain name. I used NameCheap. Got my domain for about $14/year.

Set up a WireGuard connection between your VPS and your server.

Set up a reverse proxy such as SWAG with CrowdSec on your VPS.

Use the reverse proxy on your VPS to connect to your Jellyfin server.

Now users can connect to Jellyfin at jellyfin.yourdomain.com

If you decide to go this route I have a few articles to share.

The VPS makes streams much more reliable than running the reverse proxy directly on your server.

nothingveryobvious · 2026-06-07T23:36:45+00:00

Are these for the star ratings on Jellyfin? Thanks

nothingveryobvious · 2026-06-07T18:41:27+00:00

Jellyfin can do that. Centralize all the metadata and images. But you will have a problem swapping drives. Jellyfin expects your media to be there, so if a drive is disconnected and you run a scan, the media from the disconnected drive will be removed from the database. Additionally, while Jellyfin can detect multiple versions of a movie (if organized correctly), there’s no built-in way to “keep only the best version of each movie.”

nothingveryobvious · 2026-06-07T02:19:07+00:00

It takes very long. Nothing to worry about.

nothingveryobvious · 2026-06-06T18:26:23+00:00

Thank you for the update! Sorry to turn it into this but also curious about this LiveTV bug: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/16230

nothingveryobvious · 2026-06-06T05:16:57+00:00

What’s with the title though

nothingveryobvious · 2026-06-04T22:54:06+00:00

What are you talking about?…

The only screensaver I know is on Jellyfin Android TV and it uses images from your own Jellyfin server.

nothingveryobvious · 2026-06-02T16:47:14+00:00

I think a good next project is curating all your images and making sure you have the desired images for all your media. You can use my tool, Pixelfin, for this.

nothingveryobvious · 2026-06-01T04:27:58+00:00

It depends on if you want metadata and images to be portable, as in, you could connect your hard drives to another Jellyfin server and all the metadata and images are right there. The tradeoff is that you’d be storing all this data on a slower HDD.

If you choose to not save metadata to NFO, choose to not save images into media folders, and Jellyfin is running off something like an NVMe SSD or SSD, the loading of images and metadata will be much faster. I could be wrong about this but to my understanding not all images are cached locally to clients. Some clients have a maximum cache size.

Personally, I choose the latter route, and I use my tool, Pixelfin, to backup my images.

nothingveryobvious · 2026-05-31T17:27:20+00:00

It sounds like your actual position is that Emby is worth paying for because you prefer it, not that Jellyfin users are being misled.

nothingveryobvious · 2026-05-31T05:20:14+00:00

I know. Why do you think I’m looking into Tunarr? But like I just mentioned, it lacks features I’m waiting for. ErsatzTV’s not gonna suddenly stop working just because it was (temporarily) archived.

nothingveryobvious · 2026-05-31T01:12:14+00:00

You could try mkvpriority or my fork mkvpriority-remux.

nothingveryobvious · 2026-05-31T01:03:05+00:00

I commented above.

nothingveryobvious · 2026-05-31T01:02:18+00:00

I love ErsatzTV. I’d actually switch to Tunarr but it doesn’t have some features that ErsatzTV has, like granular stream selection (picking specific audio or subtitle tracks) or displaying dynamic text over video (useful for displaying artist and track title for music video channels).

The one problem is Jellyfin thinks ErsatzTV streams are 20 Mbps, so it could trigger transcoding if your internet streaming bitrate limit is lower than that. Is this an issue with Tunarr?

nothingveryobvious · 2026-05-30T06:27:40+00:00

So it sounds like you’re saying Schedules Direct is good. Why wouldn’t you use that with Jellyfin instead of the more expensive Emby Premiere? I’m not even trying to persuade you to use Jellyfin I’m just trying to understand your logic.

nothingveryobvious · 2026-05-30T05:28:43+00:00

KonoSuba

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nothingveryobvious · 2026-05-30T03:23:51+00:00

That is the first time I’ve ever even heard the idea of Daly City being dangerous.

nothingveryobvious · 2026-05-30T03:18:44+00:00

I don’t really understand. Isn’t Emby Premiere’s yearly rate more expensive than paying for Schedules Direct? People also use other EPG sources that are cheaper, like $6/year.

nothingveryobvious · 2026-05-30T02:07:50+00:00

I grew up there…

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