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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?

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.

"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.