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What's a good piece of hardware to run a jellyfin server? (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by yokonzo@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] yokonzo@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yea, I think there was one from MSI too and a dozen other manufacturers on Amazon, eBay and AliExpress.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 1 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] maryjayjay@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

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.