I just recently put in an N100 mini PC to run as a Plex server. Cost me about £160, pulls all of 6W when idle, and it doesn’t break a sweat when transcoding no matter what I throw at it. As a media server I can’t recommend them highly enough.
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AlecStewart1st@lemmy.world 4 months agoIf you really want Intel, just get an N100 or N300. Low power, Intel HW transcoding on iGPU on Linux kernels 6.3+, and can handle Jellyfin no problem.
Didn’t think about that either. I’m finding I didn’t give this as much thought as I should’ve.
You can get a minipc with everything you for $175 for a no name brand, or maybe $250 for a more well-known brand.
But why do that when I could spend +$600? 😜
TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 4 months ago
just_another_person@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I have a few random brand ones that run just fine. Just keep backups.
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
If you’re gonna spend that level of money, you may as well go for an M1 Mac Mini. MacOS is a Unix flavor and in the new 10.9 version of Jellyfin it actually has the best hardware transcoding support. The M-series chips are video processing beasts for the money/electricity
AlecStewart1st@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I was joking. I don’t feel like shelling out $600 for a starting media server.