2024-03-28, 09:36 PM
Hello all!
New to Jellyfin, just set up my server last night, and I'm looking for some hardware advice. Currently running Jellyfin Server on a 2012 Mac mini i7, which is... doing fairly okay but something as simple as subtitles on a 1080p movie causes it to max out the CPU. It keeps up but the poor thing sounds like a vacuum cleaner!
My use case would generally be about 3-4 1080p streams for my household, with most not needing transcoding but a lot of them will, especially as my family likes to use subtitles and such a lot. I plan to get a Synology NAS to actually store the data - but the newer ones are primarily AMD CPUs and I've heard it's better to have a dedicated unit for transcoding and actually running the server.
I'm looking at something like an Intel NUC 13 Pro with an i3 processor - it's not very expensive and should do the job well from what I can tell - a few 1080p streams and a potential 4k stream in the near future. I like the idea of a small unit that'll be easy to maintain, that I can run Linux and Jellyfin on. Are there other units that y'all would recommend that might better suited to Jellyfin?
Thank you very much in advance!
New to Jellyfin, just set up my server last night, and I'm looking for some hardware advice. Currently running Jellyfin Server on a 2012 Mac mini i7, which is... doing fairly okay but something as simple as subtitles on a 1080p movie causes it to max out the CPU. It keeps up but the poor thing sounds like a vacuum cleaner!
My use case would generally be about 3-4 1080p streams for my household, with most not needing transcoding but a lot of them will, especially as my family likes to use subtitles and such a lot. I plan to get a Synology NAS to actually store the data - but the newer ones are primarily AMD CPUs and I've heard it's better to have a dedicated unit for transcoding and actually running the server.
I'm looking at something like an Intel NUC 13 Pro with an i3 processor - it's not very expensive and should do the job well from what I can tell - a few 1080p streams and a potential 4k stream in the near future. I like the idea of a small unit that'll be easy to maintain, that I can run Linux and Jellyfin on. Are there other units that y'all would recommend that might better suited to Jellyfin?
Thank you very much in advance!
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