DAS or NAS for an Arr Setup w/ Plex? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 9 months ago by lessthanthree@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Looking for some advice on my journey to expand my local storage. Currently, I have a mini PC running my Arr setup with Plex and I have an external enclosure with a HDD connected through USB. I can reliably push 4K to my Android TV. This is the system's only use and purpose.

I need to continue to be able to Hardlink files so that I can seed back while Arr programs are sorting and renaming for Plex.

I'm not too concerned with a file backup solution or relying on this setup for sharing important files across my home network.

Would a DAS be sufficient for this? Is there any reason I should avoid this and invest in a NAS solution?

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[-] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 9 months ago

I chose Jellyfin over Kodi because I don't need to configure each device seperately. And since I have the server anyway, why not take the easy route?

Kodi (LibreELEC) is great on a Pi as a media center, or rather IPTV streaming box for my mum.

[-] s38b35M5@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Kodi has made my setup dead-simple: File server running on TrueNAS serving my library over SMB/CIFS and Kodi does all the "management" on the client side (which really is just my watch progress and metadata), so my server is just a dumb box of disks in RaidZ1. I have only one client, and as for configuration, I just created two media objects in Kodi: TV and Movies, and the rest is default other than the unrelated IGAL setup.

I like what I read about the arr's and Jellyfin, but until my current setup feels cumbersome or insufficient, I'm sticking with it.

[-] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 months ago

Yes. Kodi is awesome for large displays, but I really don't think the UI and skins are a good fit for mobile.

I've tried DDL for a while, but manually searching and selecting the right quality isn't my thing. It's simple though, compared to the many hours of setting up arr* for the right quality/language.

The main advantage is probably automatic download of new episodes, otherwise manually downloading doesn't take much time compared to how long a movie/show is.

[-] Sharp312@lemmy.one 2 points 9 months ago

I use kodi with the jellyfin addon that allows for direct file playback over smb, no more worrying about how the media is encoded. Its a bad problem on my old scrounged together workstation pc with no gpu that i use as a nas lol