Yes. A Pulsed Media storage box gives you cheap bulk capacity that your seedbox can use as if it were its own disk. Because traffic between your seedbox and a storage box in the same datacenter is unmetered at up to 10Gbps, you can keep your active downloads on the fast seedbox and park your archive on the storage box without paying for the transfers between them.
There are two common ways to combine them, depending on what you want:
1. Just need more room, or want to stream a big library
Mount the storage box on your seedbox over SFTP with rclone, and put a small cache on the seedbox's fast disk in front of it. Your media server (for example Jellyfin) then streams straight from the storage box, and only the parts you actually watch get pulled across. rclone is already installed on every seedbox no setup on our side is needed.
2. Want a true hot/cold library that manages itself
Keep new downloads on the fast seedbox (the "hot" tier), let older files move to the storage box (the "cold" tier) automatically, and have Jellyfin, Sonarr and Radarr see one merged library that never changes. This uses a union filesystem plus a small scheduled "mover" script, and runs entirely as your normal user no root needed.
Both approaches, with copy-paste commands, recommended settings, and the gotchas to avoid, are documented here:
- Tiered media storage with rclone and mergerfs the full guide (caching and tiered setups).
- Rclone tutorial installing rclone and the basic mount and sync commands.
- Storage Boxes the storage box plans you would use as the backing store.
One note on speed: copying a large amount of data in one go is fastest with rclone copy --transfers 8 run directly against the remote, not by dragging files through the mounted folder. A single transfer stream tops out around 3340 MB/s regardless of the connection; running several in parallel fills the pipe.
If you would like a hand choosing between a bigger seedbox and a seedbox-plus-storage-box combination for your library size, just open a ticket and we will point you to the most cost-effective setup.
