Thanks Emby

[cwills75 14]

Not sure if a lot of users know this, but Emby is really good at keeping its appdata folder size down as long as you are using the options to save artwork, subtitles and video preview thumbnails in your local media folders.  This might not seem like a big deal for some, but with large libraries, the size the appdata folder grows to without these options is massive.  For various reasons I run paid lifetime versions of both Emby, Plex and Jellyfin (free) on my Unraid server.  I was doing some housekeeping today and made note of the appdata folder sizes:

/mnt/cache_appdata/appdata/emby - 18.8 GB
/mnt/cahce_appdata/appdata/jellyfin - 31.6 GB
/mnt/cache_appdata/appdata/plex - 630.2 GB

Emby/JF are both well contained, with Emby having the size edge.  Plex is a complete pig.  I run an Unraid plugin that automatically shuts down running dockers and backs them up nightly, just in case an update crashes the docker, or if a drive fails, or gremlins or whatever.  I can't do this with Plex, shutting it down and backing it up nightly would mean it would almost never be running with the time it takes with the size and hundreds of thousands of files/folders, so it gets excluded from the backup process.

All three of these programs have their pros/cons, but this is one area that I really do appreciate the work the Emby devs put into giving us options to keep the appdata folder lean.

[lstryhrn 7]

3 hours ago, cwills75 said:

Not sure if a lot of users know this, but Emby is really good at keeping its appdata folder size down as long as you are using the options to save artwork, subtitles and video preview thumbnails in your local media folders.  This might not seem like a big deal for some, but with large libraries, the size the appdata folder grows to without these options is massive.  For various reasons I run paid lifetime versions of both Emby, Plex and Jellyfin (free) on my Unraid server.  I was doing some housekeeping today and made note of the appdata folder sizes:

/mnt/cache_appdata/appdata/emby - 18.8 GB
/mnt/cahce_appdata/appdata/jellyfin - 31.6 GB
/mnt/cache_appdata/appdata/plex - 630.2 GB

Emby/JF are both well contained, with Emby having the size edge.  Plex is a complete pig.  I run an Unraid plugin that automatically shuts down running dockers and backs them up nightly, just in case an update crashes the docker, or if a drive fails, or gremlins or whatever.  I can't do this with Plex, shutting it down and backing it up nightly would mean it would almost never be running with the time it takes with the size and hundreds of thousands of files/folders, so it gets excluded from the backup process.

All three of these programs have their pros/cons, but this is one area that I really do appreciate the work the Emby devs put into giving us options to keep the appdata folder lean.

I agree. This is one of the main reason why I use Emby. Plex has got better though but Emby is well polished when it comes to this