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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[-] jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I ran mine off of a portable 2 TB HDD for a long time. Finally upgraded when I built a proper computer and put a 4 TB internal HDD in there.

I would prune the library every couple weeks as stuff got added. Tautulli (3rd party Plex monitor) provided info on what's been watched and when, so I could delete stuff.

Now I have a 14 TB HDD with a dedicated computer for Plex. I have plans on upgrading everything to a proper RAID5 array with better processing.