Unsure about Hardware for Media Server

[JonnyBrate]

• What kind of clients will your server be streaming to (e.g., Roku, Chromecast, AppleTV)?
  
• What do you mean by "1080p to 1080p max"?
  
• Do you use any virtualization like VMs, Kubernetes, Podman, Docker?
  
• Any network file systems or network-attached storage?
  
• Any other special requirements (e.g., 4K media, using AV1 codec, entire library is in HEVC/x265, everything has 7.1 Dolby Master Audio)?
  

Hello and thank you for your in-depth follow up questions.

1. The server will be streaming to four Samsung Smart TVs from one to four years old using the jellyfin app, which will be deployed on them. One TV will be using a chromecast.
   
2. I read about transcoding (still completely unsure if it will be the case since I don't understand it 100% since English is not my mother's tongue and more complex topics take me a while to fully grasp) and that it uses quite some power.
   
3. No virtualisation is planned.
   
4. The server will be using 2 Seagate Ironwolf 12TB HDDs in RAID (don't know which one yet)
   
5. 1080p will bew the goal since my Kids and in-laws don't care about 4k. I also plan on keeping with x264.
   

Thank you in advance for any further help!

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My Jellyfin server has the 5600G CPU as well. I have HWA set with VAAPI.

Using the iGPU, it can transcode a single HEVC 1080P to AVC 1080p stream at around 120fps-170fps.

Worst case scenario for you would be everyone transcoding at once. As long as the total framerate of each stream (added together) falls bellow the max fps the CPU can transcode and pump out, then there won't be any buffering.

The rest of your specs seem fine. If you find out that the iGPU of your cpu can't handle your daily workload, you can always buy a GPU in the future to handle transcoding.

Thanks for the reply!

How many users do you have in your network? Does that make any difference?

Thank you in advance!