Mini PC Recommendations

[DangerBK]

lmao what does that mean in terms of capabilities. That pic is hilarious. Taking the one you recommended as an example does that mean 4 4k streams?

[DangerBK]

So the cheaper AMD is fine because I'm using the Intel GPU and that's going to do all the heavy lifting. I guess my question is does that mean I can transcode 4 streams with tone mapping etc etc because using discrete GPU vs integrated.

[TheDreadPirate]

Yes. I have an Arc A380 and that can handle ~12 tone mapped transcodes. In terms of plain 1080P SDR transcodes, I stopped once I reached 20.

[DangerBK]

Geez that case holds 11 HDDs... So I could later just pull the NAS drives and drop them in there for a ton of additional storage. Combine that with being able to do 12 transcodes and I could open this up to considerably more people. All in the budget. Well I guess I'm sold then! Thanks for the assistance much appreciated. Anything I should really look out for with this setup in terms of JF configuration?

[TheDreadPirate]

Whatever distro you use must run Linux kernel 6.2 and newer (required for Intel Arc). That shouldn't be hard these days.

In terms of Jellyfin configuration, just make sure you make note of what codecs Arc GPUs don't support (old codecs) and don't check the boxes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quic...d_encoding

Low power encoding is REQUIRED for Intel Arc and requires some additional OS setup on some distros. But it is a pretty simple process.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/admini...r-encoding

[DangerBK]

The latest version of Ubuntu Server LTS is kernel 6.8 https://ubuntu.com/download/server so I'll probably go that route for simplicity based on the install instructions.

Great info on the Low Power Encoding and codecs.

[DeLoliOne]

If you avoid 4K and HDR content, the Beelink S12 with the Intel N100 should meet your needs, easily.  And it already has 16GB of RAM and a 500GB SSD.

https://www.amazon.com/Beelink-S12-Pro-G...B0D5Y4YMY8

It can handle transcoding and tone mapping 4K HDR to SDR, but that is only for a single stream.

I'm kinda in the same boat. I just want a minipc to run ubuntu and have a usb external raid. Just something simple as a server for me and the kids to watch stuff around the house. 

Would this device work well for that?

[TheDreadPirate]

N100 equipped mini PCs are super capable as a media server. It should meet your needs.

[DeLoliOne]

N100 equipped mini PCs are super capable as a media server.  It should meet your needs.

Was thinking a raid of (2 or 4) 10tb drives. Any good drive and/or external enclosure suggestions?

[TheDreadPirate]

Another user moved all their drives to a DAS enclosure. See their thread at the link below.

https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-moving-exte...s-to-a-das

They ended up with this DAS.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CTTL9R7Z