2024-07-21, 08:21 PM
(This post was last modified: 2024-07-21, 09:19 PM by Efficient_Good_5784. Edited 2 times in total.)
The ideal hardware choice would be to install the Jellyfin server data onto an SSD. Most likely the reason the Synology was not great for you is because the OS is installed on HDDs only (unless you made an all-SSD build). That also means that all Docker containers will be installed on the HDDs too.
You could make your own PC or buy a pre-built one that you can make sure has an SSD for the core services and for Jellyfin to be installed on.
I've seen some people also go with an Intel NUC too, and those don't use much power.
If you still want to go with a NAS, I would recommend Unraid or Truenas Scale. Note that I wouldn't recommend Truenas Core as its support for Jellyfin is really bad since it's built with BSD.
You basically buy your computer parts and build the PC, then install either Unraid or Truenas Scale on it. You can choose to install Jellyfin on an SSD then.
If you're worried about power consumption (since you don't want to leave your gaming PC on 24/7), just make sure to get reasonable parts. You don't need a GPU for example if your CPU has an iGPU if you want HWA for Jellyfin, and having a GPU doing nothing still uses some watts at idle.
You could make your own PC or buy a pre-built one that you can make sure has an SSD for the core services and for Jellyfin to be installed on.
I've seen some people also go with an Intel NUC too, and those don't use much power.
If you still want to go with a NAS, I would recommend Unraid or Truenas Scale. Note that I wouldn't recommend Truenas Core as its support for Jellyfin is really bad since it's built with BSD.
You basically buy your computer parts and build the PC, then install either Unraid or Truenas Scale on it. You can choose to install Jellyfin on an SSD then.
If you're worried about power consumption (since you don't want to leave your gaming PC on 24/7), just make sure to get reasonable parts. You don't need a GPU for example if your CPU has an iGPU if you want HWA for Jellyfin, and having a GPU doing nothing still uses some watts at idle.