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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[-] LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Does Jellyfin accept separate NAS well? If so, I'm about to buy one of those. And thanks for the suggestion!

Edit: or would it be best to just strap the hard drives to the thin client externally?

[-] Vittelius@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

I have my media on hard drives strapped to the thin client externally but you should also be able to use an external nas. But I've never done that, so I can't comment on how well that works. I've never seen anyone complain about such a setup though.

Btw: what nas are you using? Some NASs allow the direct installation of docker containers (Synology for example). So you could possibly run Jellyfin directly off your existing hardware

[-] LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I don't have one yet. I'm getting ready to build/buy one, but I'm still learning important things like this, and I want to buy something that works perfectly for me

[-] AJamesBrown@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

I have Jellyfin running on a NUC which has mounted a few NFS shares that are hosted on my NAS, haven't had any issues. I just added the nfs mounts to fstab and it works seamlessly.

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