New Jelly Fin user

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Thanks for replying. I am very much a "newbie". I am doing " babysteps" with Linux Mint 21.1 and Jellyfin. As I understand it trickplay allows you to scan through a movie, etc.. more incrementally. Based on a comment on line (with in the last year) a user saying that the trickplay function is so slow as to be unusable.

I wouldn't say I agree. It depends on the client as well as support. If you set up Trickplay generation in the background, it won't slow down anything while it's doing its job. Trickplay provides images while scrubbing through media to give some context of where you're at. It runs absolutely fine on my setup, though the Trickplay images are on an  NVME drive. YMMV.

My hopes are that the 120 Gig ssd would be be fast enough and storage enough to Run Jellyfin on my Linux Mint PC to access pre recorded movies on another drive (same PC) and that the performance requirements for storing and accessing movies, etc... on a 1 Tb Tosiba hard drive would not be so stringent as to adversely affect a decent Jellyfin performance.

It would be best to minimize the OS footprint by going with something like Ubuntu Server minimized. There are plenty of distros out there, but adding a GUI is unnecessary and harmful if you're hoping the 120 GB SSD is enough. Turn off all of the extras: Trickplay, chapter image generation, media segments, etc... These will just add additional storage burden.

Does not being able to use trickplay make using Jellyfin (backend) and Kodi (front end) less enjoyable/feasible?

It's a very new feature, so -- as somebody who has been using Jellyfin for at least four years -- I'd say no. You just won't get a small preview image while scrubbing.

Sorry about the very basic nature of my questions? I am in the process of the learning how to set up Jellyfin and trying to understand how the folders are set up. I am doing tutorials. thanks for the help.

No need for apologies, that's what these boards are for: questions, from basic to advanced.