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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[-] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There are plenty of ways this could technically be achieved, but the arrs are not where you would be looking IMO for content deletion (that's automated).

Though there is a option in the arrs that sets the content to "unmonitored" once it's deleted on disk. This way the content is not regrabbed once deleted.

Think of the arrs as your downloaders, Plex/Jellyfin/Kodi as your viewers.

If you are using something like unraid for your OS you can set a script that deletes files older then a certain date, or if you use truenas you can do the same. This all really depends where you host/store your files.

And Plex does have the ability to delete content once watched, though I don't use it as I have multiple users that watch my content, so I have no good way to classify what watched means, as well as there is content that I don't want deleted as it's not available online anymore.