I've had a working Emby, Jellyfin Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr (etc) setup running on a Synology NAS DS920+ (under docker) for a year or more and have been reasonably happy with the performance. (Jellyfin struggled sometimes with playback.) It occurred to me recently that maybe running the Emby/Jellyfin on my new M4 Mac Mini might give improved results--which seems to be the case.
It got me wondering which (if any) of the other apps in my setup--but especially SABnzbd--would serve me better if I also moved them over to the Mac. HDDs in the NAS, SSDs in the Mac...
I would assume everything would run faster on the Mac, but would it be overkill in some situations? Does SAB have a lot of intense disc I/O that would be "better" (or easier on the hardware long-term) on the spinny discs in the NAS? (SSDs have a more limited lifespan for reads/writes, yes? I obviously want to store all the media files on the NAS--but which device would be best for each of the apps in this setup?
Most "efficient", "appropriate" place to run SAB & the Arr's? M4 Mac Mini *and* Synology DS920+ available
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Re: Most "efficient", "appropriate" place to run SAB & the Arr's? M4 Mac Mini *and* Synology DS920+ available
Better hardware equals smoother operation, but once you get decent enough performance anything more might be good for bragging rights but won't make much of a practical difference. I wouldn't worry too much about destroying your hardware though: even for an entry-level consumer market SSD you´d have to write 25-50% of the drive's capacity every day, for years on end, to hit the manufacturer's total bytes written limit.
Re: Most "efficient", "appropriate" place to run SAB & the Arr's? M4 Mac Mini *and* Synology DS920+ available
"efficient" would mean for me: always works, no (intermittent) problems, downloads succeeds, low energy consumption, always-on, enough disk space.
If all on NAS: nice. But Jellyfin does not work good enough for you?
All on MAC: Not enough disk space (I assume)
Hybrid 1: downloading and jellyfin on MAC, storage on NAS. Then SAB's Complete should be on NAS ... and you need a good NAS connection for that. And: is your MAC always on?
Hybrid 2: everything on NAS, only Jellyfin on MAC ... and you have that now, right? Seems good to me.
Maybe your MAC can do faster downloading/processing, but personally I don't care too much about that: for me it doesn't matter if a download is there in 3 or 6 minutes. But I do downloads with small sizes. Not the 50-100GB per piece downloads.
If all on NAS: nice. But Jellyfin does not work good enough for you?
All on MAC: Not enough disk space (I assume)
Hybrid 1: downloading and jellyfin on MAC, storage on NAS. Then SAB's Complete should be on NAS ... and you need a good NAS connection for that. And: is your MAC always on?
Hybrid 2: everything on NAS, only Jellyfin on MAC ... and you have that now, right? Seems good to me.
Maybe your MAC can do faster downloading/processing, but personally I don't care too much about that: for me it doesn't matter if a download is there in 3 or 6 minutes. But I do downloads with small sizes. Not the 50-100GB per piece downloads.