The original post: /r/seedboxes by /u/stinkbums on 2025-01-16 02:25:30.

1) Are you OK with direct message offers from vendors?

Sure

2) What are your main reasons for wanting a seedbox?

Have a large plex library and for long term seeding.

3) Are you okay with sharing hardware resources with other users [shared] or do you need the seedbox hardware dedicated to just you [dedicated]?

Dedicated

4) Do you want someone else to be responsible for maintaining the seedbox software (operating system, applications) [managed] or do you want to do it all yourself [unmanaged]?

Preferably unmanaged.

5) Please describe your seedbox experience. (You may wish to list any seedbox providers you’ve been with before.)

have had dedicated from seedhost before. Just wanting to see what else is out there

6) Please describe your experience with Linux. (Most seedboxes run Linux and some knowledge of it may be helpful.)

Have managed my own seedbox before. Pretty familiar with linux

7) What is the high end of your budget? (Please give a specific amount and a currency. “Cheap” might mean something different to one person than it does to another.)

currently pay 75EU/month - hoping for a better cpu currently using e2274G

8) Do you have preferences or requirements concerning payment? (Paypal, Bitcoin, etc.)

any

9) Do you plan to use public trackers?

nope

10) What kind of connection speed do you need? (Common answers would be 100Mbps, 1Gbps, 2Gbps, 10Gbps.)

1Gpbs is fine

11) How much combined upload and download traffic do you expect each month? Include download of files from the seedbox to your local computer. If you don’t know, tell us what upload amount per month would realistically make you very happy with your seedbox.

100TB

12) What is the minimum disk space you need?

20-32TB

13) Do you require a specific type of mass storage? (HDD, SSD, NVMe SSD) If other than HDD, please explain why you think you need this.

SATA HDD

14) Do you require a specific torrent client?

qBit

15) Do you require any other applications on the seedbox? (e.g. Plex, Subsonic, Radarr)

Plex

16) Do you require SSH access to the command line?

yes

17) Do you require access to a remote desktop?

nope

18) Do you require admin level (i.e. ‘root’) access? If yes, please explain why.

yes, I plan to manage it myself

19) Do you have any other specific requirements?

decent cpu

20) Is there any other information you think might help in getting a useful recommendation?

no