Home installation suggestion

[icvdok]

Dear All,

I'm a new Jellyfin user, just started to play a bit with it.

I would like to setup a small instance for my home but I'm not sure where is the best place to install it. I've two options:

1 - Docker server (NUC 12th generation with NVIDIA 2060, 64GB of RAM)
2 - QNAP NAS (453PRO) with Intel Celeron and 8GB of RAM


Apparently the first option looks better but the movies repository is on the QNAP.  For the first option, I'm using docker and a NFS volume bind to the QNAP data.

What are you're suggestion?

Priority on the best HW with the remote storage or keep the slowest HW and local storage?

Thanks for your suggestion in advance

[bitmap]

Use the Docker server. Files over NAS are served more than fast enough both in direct play and transcode situations. The poor hardware on the NAS will limit your ability to transcode anything without any real benefit. I run two servers with most of my media served via NFS on a RYO NAS/Docker box to my main server that hosts Jellyfin.

[icvdok]

OK thanks for your reply and direction, this will save me a lot of time.

[bitmap]

Other folks may have different suggestions but I'll always lean a) Docker and b) better hardware. I doubt anybody is gonna tell you to give up QuickSync or NVENC for slightly faster local storage. Just not worth it when the only thing that might help is cache or transcode which can both be done locally by binding some volumes locally with docker anyway.

[Ze'ev Schurmann]

My 10c

I am currently toying with a multiserver setup... I am finding iSCSI to be useful.