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I have everything running on an old r510 I got for free. It has 2xL5640 CPUs and 80gb of RAM. I am running unRAID with about 50tb of total storage, and Readarr, Sonarr, Prowlarr and Overseerr for handling requests. I also have audiobookshelf and calibre-web running.
I started with windows server and moved to running plex on Ubuntu server when windows started having issues. Then I decided I wanted to virtualize it so I moved to Proxmox with a plex VM and a servarr VM both had access to zfs pool of 6x3tb HDD. Eventually I wanted to upgrade without losing all the data and without the budget to upgrade all 6 HDD at the same time so I moved to unRAID. Now everything runs in the built in docker containers.
I love the convince of the *arr apps. I have automated almost every part of my media library including meta stuff like showing if a show is cancelled or ended with PMM. I am not a huge fan of readarr or lidarr because the last time I tried using them they had a hard time getting the metadata for the books and music. I ended up ditching my music collection, and I use calibre for handling my book collection now.
Readarr/Lidarr certainly aren't as robust as the other *arr seem to be. I find myself always using ABS' match function for books Im adding, but also part of that might be that Readarr only has the mouse website for a source right now and those files don't always have good metadata/file structures. For my music I actually started using lidarr-extended as it allows deemix for a source. Works wonders for me.