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Expanding storage on simple home server
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This is highly unlikely as even the highest bitrate 4k content is going to cap out at around 12MB/s while spinning drives can transfer at 120MB/s per drive. I'd say that 99% of people hosting their own media servers are still solely relying on spinning disks for storage as SSDs are still extremely expensive per TB comparatively and don't really offer any advantages for storing bulk media at this point.
Can confirm, I have tens of terabytes of content and stream 4K content regularly from 7200 rpm drives. Never an issue, even in the slightest. Always buttery smooth playback without buffering, even on WiFi.