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Why I moved my Plex library to Jellyfin after 14 years

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Why I moved my Plex library to Jellyfin after 14 years

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Plex, the Slow Creep of Enshittification

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After 14 years with Plex, I finally moved my video library to Jellyfin. Why rising costs, feature restrictions and digital ownership pushed me towards FOSS.

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3 x 16Tb Seagate disks. One is for parity. So around 29Tb of space. Got them used about 2 years ago.
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  When you got them, how many hours were they at?
  
  The HDD I see around me have 60k hours ++ so I am a bit frisky considering what they ask for
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    I think around 20.000 hours or about 2+ years.

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