cheap hardware recommendation? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by rustydomino@lemmy.world to c/jellyfin@lemmy.ml

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hello,

I'm interested in setting up a jellyfin server that will only serve streams to TVs on my LAN. Files will be on an existing NAS. Usage will be low (probably just one stream at a time); cheap and reliable is the name of the game, and cheap includes power consumption. I am thinking of some kind of NUC but don't know enough about jellyfin yet to decide on specs. Any recommendations for a specific NUC model or CPU/GPU? I assume I will be running linux - any distro recommendations?

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[-] hadek@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I used a fujitsu q9000 mini pc, a superold thing running first gen i3m chip. It was also undervolted but performed fine for 1080p streams. 8 gb ram 2tb

Recently I upgraded to a Nuc i3-8th gen, 16gb ram and a 4tb drive. It can handle 4k and is much faster at transcoding.

The NUC doesnt consume much and works pretty well. Its also a more quite and lived in a big ventilated closet.