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Well, Synology is a brand name NAS aimed at beginners with their own “OS”. Unless you were planning on dropping a decent chunk of change to buy one, it’s a moot point. But because it’s a popular option among people starting out, I was curious of that was your situation, in which case that link would walk you through everything you needed to know, including its quirks.

I replied to someone else in this thread on how to get started with Usenet if you’re interested. It boils down to two subscriptions and another container running with your arrs stack.

You need two subscriptions. One to an indexer (https://nzb.su/) which acts like a search engine, and two to a Usenet that hosts media (https://frugalusenet.com/). These two aren’t the only two options out there, but I’ve been using them for years. YMMV.

Once you have those subscriptions, you need to run sabnzbd in a docker container near your arrs, and point your arrs to the indexer as well as to sabnzbd. Tell Sonarr you want to find a show, it uses the indexer to see where it can be found, tells sabnzbd to acquire it using the servers you paid for in the Usenet group, downloads and pieces it back together and then files it where Sonarr tells it to. Jellyfin notices that media folder has something new, and you can watch it wherever.

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Reason I asked about Synology was because there’s a good guide here for the arr deployment. I adapted it for my ugreen nas. Might be able to find parallels with whatever set up you’ve got going on.

Usenet is archaic, but therein lies the protection. It’s a straight download of disparate files that a program you run puts together. Safer than torrent, but your options may be more limited.

What are you running? Does it happen to be some all in one solution like Synology or Ugreen?

But the gist of it is you get the arrs running in a docker stack, jellyfin running in another. You don’t actually have to point them at each other: the arrs dump your films/series into a media folder you define. You tell your jellyfin server what folder has your media and bob’s your uncle.

I prefer using Usenet to download my media. Pros, not torrent, less risk. Cons, costs a bit each year.

TBH, Ubuntu used to be the best option for newbies to get their feet wet. Nowadays, it’s just a meh distro. Not enough to say abandon ship, but there are definitely better choices out there.

Coming from Synology it was a little too walled garden for me and I also hated their software, but that was also my first forray into nas. Good place to get my feet wet and all. I’m not really well versed in nas os’s though, any recommendations?

I’ve always wanted a fold, but couldn’t justify the price. I definitely don’t need one, but I want one. Even used on swappa they’re still a bit spendy.