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Intel NUC 13 or something similar for running Server? - stiligFox - 2024-03-28
Hello all!
New to Jellyfin, just set up my server last night, and I'm looking for some hardware advice. Currently running Jellyfin Server on a 2012 Mac mini i7, which is... doing fairly okay but something as simple as subtitles on a 1080p movie causes it to max out the CPU. It keeps up but the poor thing sounds like a vacuum cleaner!
My use case would generally be about 3-4 1080p streams for my household, with most not needing transcoding but a lot of them will, especially as my family likes to use subtitles and such a lot. I plan to get a Synology NAS to actually store the data - but the newer ones are primarily AMD CPUs and I've heard it's better to have a dedicated unit for transcoding and actually running the server.
I'm looking at something like an Intel NUC 13 Pro with an i3 processor - it's not very expensive and should do the job well from what I can tell - a few 1080p streams and a potential 4k stream in the near future. I like the idea of a small unit that'll be easy to maintain, that I can run Linux and Jellyfin on. Are there other units that y'all would recommend that might better suited to Jellyfin?
Thank you very much in advance!
RE: Intel NUC 13 or something similar for running Server? - TheDreadPirate - 2024-03-28
Which model i3 is it? I'm assuming a 13th gen processor. If so, that should easily handle 3-4 1080p transcodes. My 12100, when I was only using the iGPU, could handle 12 1080p transcodes. I'm assuming that NUC would be comparable.
RE: Intel NUC 13 or something similar for running Server? - stiligFox - 2024-03-29
(2024-03-28, 10:13 PM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: Which model i3 is it? I'm assuming a 13th gen processor. If so, that should easily handle 3-4 1080p transcodes. My 12100, when I was only using the iGPU, could handle 12 1080p transcodes. I'm assuming that NUC would be comparable.
The NUC I’m looking at is an 13th Gen i3-1315U - looks pretty similar performance to the i3-12100 from a precursory Google search.
Thanks for the input! I really appreciate it
