

How does everyone implement their media downloading? I was thinking of moving everything to a smaller box with its own storage, then move completed media to the NAS (after seeding). Heavy downloading on HDDs would thrash the drives before. Tutorial showing the steps to set up Sonarr to automatically download, organise and find TV Show torrents using BitTorrent client uTorrent with Plex integration.more. The last time around SSDs didn’t exist yet. I haven’t run download clients for a long time so I’m sure many things have changed. While the setup’s performance seems fine, the actively downloading torrents constantly hit the NAS, and the HDD noise is starting to get unbearable when I’m working in my lab. Download the Windows Installer with the following link and execute it. Docker is running my Sonarr/Radarr, with qBitorrent and Usenet are set up on an ESXi box because Synology struggles with running VM on the NAS. Please see our Servarr Wiki for installation instructions. audio, video, movies etc.), enter the display name and click the plus (+) sign next to the folders icon to choose the location to save your media files. If you already have something downloaded, you can import it here.
SONARR SETUP INSTALL
Synology’s caching seems a bit janky tbh so I have mine set up as read only. The next page asks you to set up your media libraries. First download the copy that you would like to use and install it as you would any normal program. It is stuffed with 18 TB EXOS drives backed by 2 x 2 TB non-enterprise NVMe cache, with the RAM maxed out to 32 GB. I purchased a Synology DS1821+ a year ago but only had the chance to set it up recently.
