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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • How much space do you think you’ll need? What type of redundancy systems are you planning to put into place, or even still do you plan to put any redundancy systems in place? Is there a specific reason you’d like to go with an external hard drive over setting up an internal raid array of some sort? Was your plan simply to just have an external drive plugged into your pc through USB or USB-C?

    I think these would be my main questions before I could feel comfortable pointing you in any directing, since naming a brand name or specific drive while efficient probably wouldn’t be good for you in the long run.




  • You’ll want to look at either Plex or Jellyfin for your front-end streaming clients, personally I prefer Jellyfin for its customizability. For sorting media, you’ll want Sonarr for TV-Shows and Radarr for movies. To find the magnet links to send to Sonarr and Radarr you’ll need something like Prowlarr which will pull magnet links from the sources you’ll specify. With that out of the way you’ll need some way to take those magnet links and actually download from them and for my I prefer to use qBit, but any torrent client will work, just make sure to put it behind a VPN. Lastly, I’d set up Obmi to allow your users to make requests. In regard to the OS why not use something like TrueNAS compared to the guide which suggested Ubuntu, I’ve found the UI in TrueNAS Scale to be much easier to work with especially since all the services I mentioned are apps that you just pretty much one click installs.