What's a good piece of hardware to run a jellyfin server?
What's a good piece of hardware to run a jellyfin server?
I'm wanting to set up my external Seagate drive with all my media on it to run a jellyfin server but I'm not sure which device to use. I'm thinking a raspberry pi but I'm not sure which one. From what I can tell from running the server on my laptop it is fairly CPU intensive for lower end systems
Edit: so general consensus seems to be, don't use a pi, it's not powerful enough
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Someone did the math at /r/Plex and an N100 based Intel mini pc was the most efficient.
It has hardware transcoding support and uses under 10W of power
EDIT: found the link: https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/1ae6683/intel_n100_vs_ryzen_7_1700_1st_gen_an_interesting/
That's the exact one I upgraded to two weeks ago. Runs jelly, sonarr, radarr, bazaar, sabnzbget and overseerr with a 24tb lvm raid on USB. Barely touches the amount of RAM installed and live transcodes two 1080p movies simultaneously.
Yea, I think there was one from MSI too and a dozen other manufacturers on Amazon, eBay and AliExpress.
My beelink one is pretty OK. It gets a bit pissy when I try to debloat win11, but I haven't bothered installing Linux on it yet.
I did modify it to install a good wifi antenna, though. Was pretty easy and only cost $10.