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

  • lepinkainen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    8 months ago

    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.

      • lepinkainen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

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

        • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.onlineEnglish
          1·
          8 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.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 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.