Mini PC Recommendations

[DeLoliOne]

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

That's a really good pick for the housing.

I didn't want to reuse the drives on hand cuz their kinda old. Someone suggested these drives . Four of these should be plenty of space for the media I have, should they hold up well?

Also thank you so much for answering all my pesky questions. I just wanna try to avoid having to rebuy things cuz I made dumb choices.

[TheDreadPirate]

Yep. I have the WD Red Pros in my server (also CMR, but 7200RPM).

[DeLoliOne]

So to recap for anyone who searches for minipc media server for jellyfin later.

This is what it has boiled down to.

• MiniPC
  
• External Storage
  
• Drives
  

This seems to cover all the basic bases pretty well.

Thanks again for all the help!

[TheDreadPirate]

Looks about right.

[kurosaki1990]

Hi guys,
I found this mini pc on the market
> Mini pc LENOVO ThinkCentre M715Q , AMD Ryzen 5 PRO (4 cœurs ) , Windows 11 pro , SSD NVME

is it good for transcode 4K films?

[TheDreadPirate]

Negative. Even if that CPU has a Radeon iGPU, it wouldn't be sufficient for 4K transcoding. For mini PCs, stick with Intel CPUs if you intend to use them for Jellyfin.

[kurosaki1990]

Negative.  Even if that CPU has a Radeon iGPU, it wouldn't be sufficient for 4K transcoding.  For mini PCs, stick with Intel CPUs if you intend to use them for Jellyfin.

hmm i found the price interesting, thanks so i will back to search for anything above gen8 intel cpus.

[kurosaki1990]

Hi guys, i found this Optiplex 3070 I3-9éme trying to upgrade from pi4 wondering if can handle two 4k transcode ?
CPU: I3-9100T
Graph: Intel® UHD Graphics 630

[TheDreadPirate]

If it isn't tone mapping, yes. If you are tone mapping, it may struggle.