2025-04-25, 10:35 AM
(2024-05-10, 10:47 PM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: As long as you use the NAS as just a NAS, they're all about the same. We strongly recommend you do not run Jellyfin on a NAS. The hardware is underpowered, the hardware is not upgradable, and the software is restricting and tends to lag a bit too far behind (the version of the Linux kernel they use, specifically).
NASes, in general, are only really necessary if you have a bunch of servers accessing data stored in the same place. A computer with a bunch of hard drives is just fine (this is what I do) if Jellyfin is the only thing you have running.
Depending on where you live, surplus office PCs can be had for very cheap and are fairly capable as long as they have Intel 8th gen and newer CPUs.
I like the idea of using a NAS instead of a PC for energy/environmental reasons. Could a NAS not be ok just to run stuff that doesn't need transcoding?