Low Power Jellyfin Server

[The Cookie Gangster]

Good evening everyone.

Fairly new to the media server world, recently discovered and now throughly hooked and intrigued by the possibilities of starting and building my own extensive media library using Jellyfin.

Bought parts intended to go towards a "server"
CPU: Ryzen 5 5600G
Motherboard:Asus A520M plus Wi-Fi
PSU: Corsair RM650
RAM: 16Gb  3200 corsair
Storage: 2 4TB Ironwolf HDD

Would there be any way to reconfigure the hardware into a low power server? I.e add new parts in order to achieve this?

[Venson]

well i would ask what constitutes as "low power" for you?

[TheDreadPirate]

In your BIOS you can disable turbo states and high performance modes. Those consume A LOT more power for not a lot of performance gain. And those gains are even less significant for a jellyfin setup.

[The Cookie Gangster]

Good evening everyone.

Fairly new to the media server world, recently discovered and now throughly hooked and intrigued by the possibilities of starting and building my own extensive media library using Jellyfin.

Bought parts intended to go towards a "server"
CPU: Ryzen 5 5600G
Motherboard:Asus A520M plus Wi-Fi
PSU: Corsair RM650
RAM: 16Gb  3200 corsair
Storage: 2 4TB Ironwolf HDD

Would there be any way to reconfigure the hardware into a low power server? I.e add new parts in order to achieve this?

well i would ask what constitutes as "low power" for you?

20 Watts realistic?

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In your BIOS you can disable turbo states and high performance modes.  Those consume A LOT more power for not a lot of performance gain.  And those gains are even less significant for a jellyfin setup.

Thanks, is your system always on and how much power does it draw?

[TheDreadPirate]

My system is always on. I haven't measured, but I'd estimate that it draws 25-30W idle. A lot of that is just the 3 hard drives.

Typical power draw when loaded (transcoding) is around 60W for short periods of time.