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What's a good piece of hardware to run a jellyfin server? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If you can get a 7th gen Intel or even a halfway decent basic El cheapo Nvidia card then that will help with transcoding but outside of that anything that runs the interface should be fine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You don't even need 7th gen. My i7 920 could run it without breaking a sweat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

The reason why I said 7th gen is because the built-in graphics card can do some pretty good quality transcoding.

It's also nice because on the used market there's quite a few i3 and i5 based 7th gen PCs available for a hundred and change.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

This. Not to mention, there are a million Nvidia P4s on Ebay for cheap after everyone dismantled their old mining rigs. Also, they're low-pro cards not any longer than an ITX motherboard.