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Feels like some of that stuff, like the SSD’s are a bit overkill for a media server. Most of them still use spinning disks to maximize size vs. cost.

Additionally, the CPU/GPU needs of a media server are pretty minor, unless you need to transcode on the fly, and even then, single streams aren’t very intensive either.

So unless you’re capping the outgoing bandwidth to multiple external sources, you’re most likely just streaming the video source as-is to the destination, which just needs a stable network stream. If you don’t need to transcode at all, you don’t really even need a GPU on the hardware.

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AlecStewart1st@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m beginning to realize I haven’t looked into this as much as I should’ve. 😅 So for most people, with what @AtariDump@lemmy.world has mentioned, a raspberry pi with 1 or multiple hard drives (if you really want) is a good start.

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- mipadaitu@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Price in a backup solution too, you don’t want to have all your movies disappear because of one hard drive crash, or an accidental reformat gone wrong.
  
  RAID is not a backup.
  
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  - AlecStewart1st@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Good point. So what we’re really talking about then is
    
    something like a raspberry pi
    
    1 or 2 hard drives for base storage
    
    1 external hard drive as a backup
    
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    mipadaitu@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That would be a great platform to start with.
    
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- AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Hey, it happens. That’s why it’s great to be able to ask others for suggestions :)
  
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