5 hours ago
To alb123
For Jellyfin, I currently use a Geekom N100 mini PC with 16GB RAM, a 1TB NVME and currently running under bare metal Linux Mint, as my main server. Intel Quicksync hardware transcoding is correctly configured with the various tweaks required.
There are four attached 20TB USB drives containing all sorts of stuff but properly allocated with correct filenames within correctly named directories.
It's on a 1Gbitx1Gbit fibre service and supports, easily four simultaneous users. It can probably handle more but I've never bothered to investigate.
It's been spinning away for about two years (probably more) now and has never had as much as a stutter. It also hosts a Subsonic audio collection with about 500,000 tracks and a Kavita ebooks server which again, has never failed even although Subsonic is now well past the abondonware stage.
For backup, I use the exact same Geekom mini PC you refer to but with a 2TB Samsung 990 Pro NVME. It connects to a 5 bay DAS and one 22TB USB drive, all totalling some 70TB. This one runs under Windows 11 Pro (not the included possibly dodgy version of Windows supplied) and also via a 1Gbitx1Gbit fibre connection.
As it's a backup, it's seldom serving users but boringly, has never failed at all.
The two systems syncronise every other morning via a Tailscale VPN connection and rsync initiated from the Windows end (under Windows Subsystem for Linux/Ubuntu). Never fails.
I don't hold any particular candle for Geekcom as it's just the way it worked out. I reckoned, at the time, that the build quality was better than most of the cheap boxes and, of course, the prices were right.
I hope this assists you in your choices.
For Jellyfin, I currently use a Geekom N100 mini PC with 16GB RAM, a 1TB NVME and currently running under bare metal Linux Mint, as my main server. Intel Quicksync hardware transcoding is correctly configured with the various tweaks required.
There are four attached 20TB USB drives containing all sorts of stuff but properly allocated with correct filenames within correctly named directories.
It's on a 1Gbitx1Gbit fibre service and supports, easily four simultaneous users. It can probably handle more but I've never bothered to investigate.
It's been spinning away for about two years (probably more) now and has never had as much as a stutter. It also hosts a Subsonic audio collection with about 500,000 tracks and a Kavita ebooks server which again, has never failed even although Subsonic is now well past the abondonware stage.
For backup, I use the exact same Geekom mini PC you refer to but with a 2TB Samsung 990 Pro NVME. It connects to a 5 bay DAS and one 22TB USB drive, all totalling some 70TB. This one runs under Windows 11 Pro (not the included possibly dodgy version of Windows supplied) and also via a 1Gbitx1Gbit fibre connection.
As it's a backup, it's seldom serving users but boringly, has never failed at all.
The two systems syncronise every other morning via a Tailscale VPN connection and rsync initiated from the Windows end (under Windows Subsystem for Linux/Ubuntu). Never fails.
I don't hold any particular candle for Geekcom as it's just the way it worked out. I reckoned, at the time, that the build quality was better than most of the cheap boxes and, of course, the prices were right.
I hope this assists you in your choices.