2024-08-24, 04:53 AM
(This post was last modified: 2024-08-27, 02:13 AM by Overlay1. Edited 3 times in total.
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Hello,
I'm migrating over from plex and have a pretty basic setup, i5 4690 + 16gbs ram with a large external hard drive - essentially a noob.
I have a basic Jellyfin just installed on windows 10 home, but that computer was used for some other things as well. I'm looking at a mini pc that has a n300, 256gb ssd, 8gb soldered ram (not expandable), 2x 1GB Eth, 2X HDMI, 4USB 3.x + UsbC and Win11 Home preinstalled. it's the same price as many N100s with 16gb, 512 storage but figured the extra 4 cores would be nice for running multiple things. I don't have much linux experience but i am looking for something with containerized solutions.
Is this a bad decision to get this with 8gbs of ram? I like the thought of 16gb for "future proof" but at the same time i am a noob and besides transcodes on the igpu i'm not sure i have anything that would load the cpu too harshly.
Also have some audiobooks i wanted to add and was wondering if there is a good plugins as well as a good mobile player.
Looking to run:
Not sure what OS I should use if I should just use Win11 that comes with it and portainer or go with a linux solution.
Is the 8gb of ram a big sacrifice or should I be fine.
Thank you!
I'm migrating over from plex and have a pretty basic setup, i5 4690 + 16gbs ram with a large external hard drive - essentially a noob.
I have a basic Jellyfin just installed on windows 10 home, but that computer was used for some other things as well. I'm looking at a mini pc that has a n300, 256gb ssd, 8gb soldered ram (not expandable), 2x 1GB Eth, 2X HDMI, 4USB 3.x + UsbC and Win11 Home preinstalled. it's the same price as many N100s with 16gb, 512 storage but figured the extra 4 cores would be nice for running multiple things. I don't have much linux experience but i am looking for something with containerized solutions.
Is this a bad decision to get this with 8gbs of ram? I like the thought of 16gb for "future proof" but at the same time i am a noob and besides transcodes on the igpu i'm not sure i have anything that would load the cpu too harshly.
Also have some audiobooks i wanted to add and was wondering if there is a good plugins as well as a good mobile player.
Looking to run:
- Jelly
- audiobooks.
- Caddy reverse proxy or Nginx
- (Maybe) pihole/adguard
- (Maybe) Pfsense - saw some things saying virtual router is probably not a great idea.
- (maybe) occaisional minecraft server - yes i know this would be the biggest hog. I can also just use my old pc.
- Monitoring solution of some sort
- Any other suggestions
Not sure what OS I should use if I should just use Win11 that comes with it and portainer or go with a linux solution.
Is the 8gb of ram a big sacrifice or should I be fine.
Thank you!