Not unless you choose really slow hard drives, or stream very high bitrate media. Most hard drives can easily do 100MB/s sequentially (i.e. reading a large file, such as long video files). Meanwhile high-bitrate 4K video is only about 50Mbit/s, so about 6MB/s.
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lavendertea@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month agoYes, the consensus here seems to be that for media it is fine to choose a HDD. Won’t it make streaming from Jellyfin slower?
stormeuh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
No. Keep all the software running on SSDs while using HDDs for storing the video files themselves. You’ll never max their transfer speed out especially considering you’re not sharing with friends and family.
zlatko@programming.dev 1 month ago
My small low power self built NAS has HDDs for Jellyfin and no problems at all. Just a simple straight forward RAID1 created from countless online tutorials.
lavendertea@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Thanks for sharing that writeup, this is exactly the kind of info I was looking for.
freebee@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
HDD is cheap and enough, but SSD is silent.
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
No. People here grossly underestimate the performance of hdds. Streaming is an easy task for hdds.