diff --git a/server/gpu/modal/reflector_llm.py b/server/gpu/modal/reflector_llm.py
index 1a3f77d6..9e20ff00 100644
--- a/server/gpu/modal/reflector_llm.py
+++ b/server/gpu/modal/reflector_llm.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import json
 import os
 from typing import Optional
 
+import modal
 from modal import Image, Secret, Stub, asgi_app, method
 
 # LLM
@@ -15,7 +16,7 @@ LLM_LOW_CPU_MEM_USAGE: bool = True
 LLM_TORCH_DTYPE: str = "bfloat16"
 LLM_MAX_NEW_TOKENS: int = 300
 
-IMAGE_MODEL_DIR = "/model"
+IMAGE_MODEL_DIR = "/root/llm_models"
 
 stub = Stub(name="reflector-llm")
 
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@ def download_llm():
     from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
 
     print("Downloading LLM model")
-    snapshot_download(LLM_MODEL, local_dir=IMAGE_MODEL_DIR)
+    snapshot_download(LLM_MODEL, cache_dir=IMAGE_MODEL_DIR)
     print("LLM model downloaded")
 
 
@@ -38,7 +39,7 @@ def migrate_cache_llm():
     from transformers.utils.hub import move_cache
 
     print("Moving LLM cache")
-    move_cache()
+    move_cache(cache_dir=IMAGE_MODEL_DIR, new_cache_dir=IMAGE_MODEL_DIR)
     print("LLM cache moved")
 
 
@@ -77,9 +78,10 @@ class LLM:
 
         print("Instance llm model")
         model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
-            IMAGE_MODEL_DIR,
+            LLM_MODEL,
             torch_dtype=getattr(torch, LLM_TORCH_DTYPE),
             low_cpu_mem_usage=LLM_LOW_CPU_MEM_USAGE,
+            cache_dir=IMAGE_MODEL_DIR
         )
 
         # generation configuration
@@ -91,7 +93,10 @@ class LLM:
 
         # load tokenizer
         print("Instance llm tokenizer")
-        tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(LLM_MODEL)
+        tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
+            LLM_MODEL,
+            cache_dir=IMAGE_MODEL_DIR
+        )
 
         # move model to gpu
         print("Move llm model to GPU")
diff --git a/server/gpu/modal/reflector_transcriber.py b/server/gpu/modal/reflector_transcriber.py
index f06706c8..ff4caff7 100644
--- a/server/gpu/modal/reflector_transcriber.py
+++ b/server/gpu/modal/reflector_transcriber.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Reflector GPU backend - transcriber
 import os
 import tempfile
 
+import modal
 from modal import Image, Secret, Stub, asgi_app, method
 from pydantic import BaseModel
 
@@ -13,18 +14,55 @@ from pydantic import BaseModel
 WHISPER_MODEL: str = "large-v2"
 WHISPER_COMPUTE_TYPE: str = "float16"
 WHISPER_NUM_WORKERS: int = 1
-WHISPER_CACHE_DIR: str = "/cache/whisper"
 
 # Translation Model
 TRANSLATION_MODEL = "facebook/m2m100_418M"
 
+IMAGE_MODEL_DIR = "/root/transcription_models"
+
 stub = Stub(name="reflector-transcriber")
 
 
-def download_whisper():
+def download_whisper(cache_dir: str | None = None):
     from faster_whisper.utils import download_model
 
-    download_model(WHISPER_MODEL, local_files_only=False)
+    print("Downloading Whisper model")
+    download_model(WHISPER_MODEL, cache_dir=cache_dir)
+    print("Whisper model downloaded")
+
+
+def download_translation_model(cache_dir: str | None = None):
+    from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
+
+    print("Downloading Translation model")
+    ignore_patterns = ["*.ot"]
+    snapshot_download(
+        TRANSLATION_MODEL,
+        cache_dir=cache_dir,
+        ignore_patterns=ignore_patterns
+    )
+    print("Translation model downloaded")
+
+
+def download_models():
+    print(f"Downloading models to {IMAGE_MODEL_DIR=}")
+    download_whisper(cache_dir=IMAGE_MODEL_DIR)
+    download_translation_model(cache_dir=IMAGE_MODEL_DIR)
+    print(f"Model downloads complete.")
+
+
+def migrate_cache_llm():
+    """
+    XXX The cache for model files in Transformers v4.22.0 has been updated.
+    Migrating your old cache. This is a one-time only operation. You can
+    interrupt this and resume the migration later on by calling
+    `transformers.utils.move_cache()`.
+    """
+    from transformers.utils.hub import move_cache
+
+    print("Moving LLM cache")
+    move_cache(cache_dir=IMAGE_MODEL_DIR, new_cache_dir=IMAGE_MODEL_DIR)
+    print("LLM cache moved")
 
 
 whisper_image = (
@@ -37,8 +75,10 @@ whisper_image = (
         "transformers",
         "sentencepiece",
         "protobuf",
+        "huggingface_hub==0.16.4",
     )
-    .run_function(download_whisper)
+    .run_function(download_models)
+    .run_function(migrate_cache_llm)
     .env(
         {
             "LD_LIBRARY_PATH": (
@@ -68,10 +108,16 @@ class Whisper:
             device=self.device,
             compute_type=WHISPER_COMPUTE_TYPE,
             num_workers=WHISPER_NUM_WORKERS,
+            download_root=IMAGE_MODEL_DIR
+        )
+        self.translation_model = M2M100ForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
+            TRANSLATION_MODEL,
+            cache_dir=IMAGE_MODEL_DIR
+        ).to(self.device)
+        self.translation_tokenizer = M2M100Tokenizer.from_pretrained(
+            TRANSLATION_MODEL,
+            cache_dir=IMAGE_MODEL_DIR
         )
-        self.translation_model = M2M100ForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(TRANSLATION_MODEL).to(self.device)
-        self.translation_tokenizer = M2M100Tokenizer.from_pretrained(TRANSLATION_MODEL)
-
 
     @method()
     def warmup(self):