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Hello, i want to get into the self hosting game and have some questions about it. I hope that this community may help me (i already learnt so much by reading posts in this community).

  1. I want to self host an NAS and some home server applications like Immich, Homeassistant, Jellyfin and parts of the *Arr stack. Would it be advisable to get a mini-PC and a separate NAS or can i put this on the same appliance together? Was thinking about getting a NAS from Terramaster and i am not sure if i need a separate mini PC.
  2. If i would go with the all in one solution, would TrueNAS Scale be enough? I saw some recommendations to get Promox and run TrueNAS Scale for the NAS management and Promox container for everything else.
  3. If i would go with the separate solutions how would i handle seeding? Since the mini-PC would run the *Arr Suite with qBittorrent would it be able to download directly to the NAS and hardlink the stuff there or would seeding require two copies, one on the mini-pc and another one on the NAS?

I hope my problems are clear, i tried searching for it but did not find a satisfying answer, which is why i am asking here. Thanks in advance

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[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

One of the issues with multiple devices is networking. Transferring totally legit files for the Arr stack to and from the NAS can be a lot of data. Keeping it all in one system means your speeds up to that point are SATA speeds vs ethernet.

For the OP, one file with hard linking is my goal, but I only use Usenet. I rip anything that comes down with Tdarr to strip languages, normalize audio and rip to H265. If you do that with torrents, you will need to keep the original for seeding.

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Meh, I only have gigabit and my content lives on an NFS share. It's been fine for streaming and everything else.

[–] AlmightyDoorman@kbin.earth 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Is it really that much data? I mean I can't seed faster than my upload speed anyways and that is a lot lower than 1gigabit so i don't quite see how the network will get saturated.

[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

It really depends on your use case. I've gone through 9tb of data in a month. And often have up to a dozen BR quality movie requests at once. 35-65gb each, on average. If you're only doing one movie at a time and only doing torrent quality, you shouldn't have any issues.