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Does using the -arrs use insane amounts of disk space? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by Redditgee@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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The only way I can see switching my Luddite family off of the streaming sites is by making it easier. Up until now, I've torrented the old fashioned way, but now I'm moving into plex (ik, ik, jellyfin is better) and want to start using the -arrs. As I understand it, which I'm not sure I do, the -arrs will automatically grab torrents. In my mind, this would eat up a TB pretty quickly. Do you guys all have massive SSDs (heh), or am I misunderstanding?

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[–] menos08642@lemmy.menos.gotdns.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Massive SSDs? Nah, just a couple of 1TB drives as cache. The rest of my 120TB is spinning disks :)

[–] idle@158436977.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Interesting. Are you pre-caching contents on the faster drives? How are you going about it?

[–] menos08642@lemmy.menos.gotdns.org 1 points 1 year ago

I use Unraid as my server OS. It has a mechanism for caching file writes to the slower array disks.

[–] CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Docker containers running the -arrs and Plex live on the SSDs so they load faster. Downloads are cached to SSDs so that read/write speed isn't a limit when lots of downloads are running simultaneously. The downloads then get moved to a spinning disk array for long term storage whenever Unraid runs it's 'mover' operation.