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?
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.
You seem to be partly misunderstanding. They only grab what you tell them to, so they won’t automatically fill your disks with random videos.
What they do is grab any movies or TV series that you specify, and give you the option to upgrade them to a file size and quality limit that you set. For example, you could tell them that movies can be a maximum of 10GB per file, and TV can be a maximum of 3GB, and that you’d prefer 4k.
There are profile options that let you grab any available copy of a video, and upgrade it as better versions come along.
Your question is a little odd, Torrenting “manually” and torrenting with the -arrs is the same in “process” and you will use the same amount of diskspace (not accounting for the programs themselves that is).
Using the -arrs is what make the who torrenting process a little more “automated” as you specify the content you are looking for, and once that content it available the software pulls it from whatever sites or index’s you have provided in your initial setup of the programs.
No more having to look at multiple sites for something, as soon as it’s online the arrr pull it and download it as soon as possible for you.
When data hoarding disk space is just a construct maaaaaan
