> a 45 Drives unraid server

You run this at home? How’s your power bill? And why so many drives?

45 Drives is a brand ;). Modern servers are reasonably power efficient, and solar helps a lot.

I've got a high density 42RU rack at home, it's a fun hobby.

Could you share some details on your solar setup?

It's not set up yet, but I've been planning it with a sparkie mate.

My rack - despite being high density - is relatively low draw. I'm currently pulling around 500w/h and expect to only burst to about 800w/h.

As such, I'm looking at a 25-30kwh system, depending on what I can efficiantly squeeze in. I'd also like to chain together 2-3 Powerwalls or similar battery systems for a storage capacity of 2 days or so of total draw. I also have an electric car and a family, so 2 days is probably about 40kwh.

The expectation is it'll save around $300-350 a month, so it'll take a few years for ROI, but that's ok - as long as it allows me to feed my hobby!

Ha, that makes more sense!

Actually not bad. I’m Not sure of the actual power draw but it can’t be too bad. Has just a single Corsair 650 watt psu. But the server also has two xeons so I’m probably at least 400 watts.

Oowhee that’s a lot of power. My “server” idles at 50W and it’s already costing me about 10$/month in electricity.

What's your 'server' setup? I like hacky solutions

Nothing fancy, just an i5 4790k

I am out of the loop.

What is “*arr”?

I was curious about this too, and looked into it. It's referring to a suite of piracy apps, for automatically building libraries from trackers.

Wiki (linked from one of the githubs, has links to all apps and more info than the githubs): https://wiki.servarr.com/

Lidarr (Music): https://github.com/Lidarr/Lidarr

Radarr (Movies): https://github.com/radarr/radarr

Readarr (Books): https://github.com/readarr/readarr

Sonarr (TV): https://github.com/sonarr/sonarr

Need to note that you don’t have to use them for piracy. They also work great if you rip your own media and throw it into an import directory. As long as it’s named close enough the apps will pick it up, organize and apply and meta it needs. I use a dedicated instance just for hand ripped UHD.

A collection of tools to help you get the media you probably paid too much for anyway but didn't get since Netflix and the rest never got the message that the reason why Spotify works even if it costs more than a CD a month is because everything is there.

Netflix today is just mockery, at least in Europe.

That said, I don't pirate, mostly because I believe in law and order.

But I certainly won't report anyone else for doing it. And if I have a chance I will vote for the guys who will crush copyright in its current form.

I do use these apps and we basically download Netflix and (especially) Prime series that we already have subscriptions for because their apps are horrendous.

> mostly because I believe in law and order.

Everyone believes in law and order. There are pirates who believe in law and order more than you, inevitably. It's not a justification to not pirate.

> I believe in law and order.

Where do you live? Seriously, I'd love to emigrate somewhere that gives me this comfort.

They’re media download managers where you can subscribe to your preferred media, often combined with plex or jellyfin (media servers). There’s Radarr (movies), Sonarr (tv shows), and Prowlarr (torrent/nzb search indexers). There’s also a ‘music’-arr but it’s name is lost on me.

Lidarr

Most likely Sonarr, Radarr they are library management and fetch apps.

Sonarr+Radarr most likely

And bazarr and jackett to rule them all.

And Prowlarr, and Overseerr

oh, thanks for mentioning prowlarr! I did not know it and it seems to be the expected replacement for jackett.

radarr/sonarr

A few of these look pretty good, thanks.

Why Disney dinner reservations specifically?