Comment on Recommendations for Hardware for Physical Media/Jellyfin Server
kevincox@lemmy.ml 2 weeks agoVideo serving is a very sequential workload so hard drives will be more than sufficient and you can typically get storage at a lower price.
SSD may give you slightly faster start and seeking but it is unlikely to be noticeable.
niemcycle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Agreed, you’re probably going to run into network bottlenecks before storage read times become an issue