2025-01-16, 12:30 AM
(This post was last modified: 2025-01-16, 08:07 PM by TheDreadPirate. Edited 1 time in total.)
Hi gang,
I'm thinking about getting a couple mini PCs to use as servers. The first would be for personal use on my local network, where I watch mostly 1080p and 4K remuxes, always direct playing on my Nvidia Shield TV Pro. I have two 22TB drives in a QNAP TR-004 DAS, with my M2 MacBook Pro currently acting as the server. I'd also use the mini PC to download from {we don't talk about content acquisition here - TDP} and for general NAS stuff, i.e. accessing files from different devices, pi-hole, etc.
The other is for use at my parents' house (they'll soon have gigabit fiber), and will be for friends and family viewing remotely. I don't plan on transcoding with this server either — it'll mainly be 1080p files in the neighborhood of 10Gb.
I'm looking at the lower-end Beelink models, would this be overkill? Not powerful enough? How inexpensive can I go here? Definitely open to getting something older/used.
Many thanks!
I'm thinking about getting a couple mini PCs to use as servers. The first would be for personal use on my local network, where I watch mostly 1080p and 4K remuxes, always direct playing on my Nvidia Shield TV Pro. I have two 22TB drives in a QNAP TR-004 DAS, with my M2 MacBook Pro currently acting as the server. I'd also use the mini PC to download from {we don't talk about content acquisition here - TDP} and for general NAS stuff, i.e. accessing files from different devices, pi-hole, etc.
The other is for use at my parents' house (they'll soon have gigabit fiber), and will be for friends and family viewing remotely. I don't plan on transcoding with this server either — it'll mainly be 1080p files in the neighborhood of 10Gb.
I'm looking at the lower-end Beelink models, would this be overkill? Not powerful enough? How inexpensive can I go here? Definitely open to getting something older/used.
Many thanks!