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Jellyfin using storage over network - TolleyLikesRice - 2023-12-17
Sorry if this has been asked before, I couldn't find much on google.
If it at-all feasible to have all my media stored in an external storage, for example backblaze or a NAS, which is made available to Jellyfin through something like rclone. I currently have a dedicated server with gigabit up and down and an i7-7700 (which google tells me is good enough to transcode), but it doesn't have much storage. It's significantly cheaper for me to either use storage from a cloud provider, or setup a link to my own existing storage box, than put more drives in that server.
Would a setup like this have any major performance impacts? I did see rffmpeg, however that doesn't work great if I want my jellyfin to be hosted at the same place as the transcoding, but the storage elsewhere.
RE: Jellyfin using storage over network - TheDreadPirate - 2023-12-17
A lot of people here use rclone with cloud storage. There will be impacts on responsiveness for sure. Jellyfin doesn't care where the media is, ultimately. As long as it is mounted with rclone and appears as files to Jellyfin it doesn't care.
You don't need rffmpeg for this kind of setup.
RE: Jellyfin using storage over network - Pamphlet6795 - 2023-12-20
I use Jellyfin with a network share (NFS) from another VM without issues. Be aware that real time filesystem monitoring will not work though.