Personal Rooster Teeth Archival Project

I've been a fan of Rooster Teeth since 2005 when a family friend handed me a burned disc of a pirated copy of RvB Season 1. Since then I've watched the majority of their content.

It was terrible to hear that they were shutting down. So I immediately went to work on my personal archival project. I needed a reason to buy more storage anyway, and this was a perfect excuse.

I picked up 3 new 14TB enterprise drives from an Ebay reseller. They had 0 power on hours and SMART showed them healthy. Placed them in my (up until this point unused) disk shelf.

Added them to my existing media storage pool in TrueNAS, a new ZFS RAIDz1 vdev. The pool has a total of 44TB usable space now, ~28TB free.

So with the space to spare, I used yt-dlp to start mass downloading from Youtube and the RT site. At first I focused on the projects I loved the most, Demo Disk, RTP, Gmod videos, RT shorts and RT life.

At this point I have most of what I want, about 3.3TB worth, but I'll probably still grab more. It will be good to grab some unwatched shows, so I'll occasionally have some "new to me" RT content.

I had a docker container running dizqueTV that I setup a while back, but it has been unused for a while, I figured it would be good to get that up and running again.

Using this, I created a virtual RT channel (I'll probably make 2-3 of them for variety) and it created a schedule of content.

From there I was able to import the schedule into Plex as a "Live TV" provider

So I have a personal version of RTTV to watch whenever I want and can be streamed to any device with a web browser or Plex installed.

Update - After much more time spent archiving, this was the total size of the archive.