What's a good piece of hardware to run a jellyfin server? (lemmy.world)

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I'm wanting to set up my external Seagate drive with all my media on it to run a jellyfin server but I'm not sure which device to use. I'm thinking a raspberry pi but I'm not sure which one. From what I can tell from running the server on my laptop it is fairly CPU intensive for lower end systems

Edit: so general consensus seems to be, don't use a pi, it's not powerful enough

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[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago

Only you? A pi is fine.

I struggle to recommend using such a low end device for any media serving related proprieties that might require transcoding.

Even with the native Plex Media Server that my Shield TV Pro has and I being the main user it led to some undesired transcoding (like anime video files) making it struggle at times, which I consider is better suited than the Pi for these activities.

Usually you want to avoid transcoding, but sooner or later you will face it, and if you have more users using your server then this scale grows.

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