Geekom Mini PC? Suggestion/Opinion

[alb123]

My current Jellyfin server is on an ancient Dell running Windows 10.  I'm not the most competent PC or Networking guy around, but I handle all the basic stuff just fine.  Is using a Geekom Mini PC as a 24/7 Jellyfin server an unwise move?  I need to upgrade to Windows 11 and the Dell I have can't handle it.  My current Jellyfin Server consists of about 15 External WD drives 10TB to 20TB units.  It's gross, I know.  My goal is to get a used Supermicro 4U 36-drive server, but I don't have the $$ and time for that at the moment.  I really wanted to just swap out my old Dell for something with Windows 11 for now and be done with it.  The machine with also be running the common ARR & BT apps.  I'm not a healthy person and going through a tough spell at the moment, hence, my quicker and easier is better attitude currently...

Are these capable?  I could spend a little more, but not much...

I just read that AMD is not recommended in the hardware guide, so I am switching my example to:

https://www.amazon.com/GEEKOM-Mini-IT13-...hlbWF0aWM=

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSPB26NK?ref=

[SP Loomis]

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.